On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 17:07:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Sometimes packages get renamed. [...] > > [...] if one > wants to remove it, then apt or aptitude will also want to remove > the new package because this new package has not been installed > manually and its only reverse dependency (the transitional package) > has just been removed by this operation. [...] > > Is there a way to avoid this behavior automatically, i.e. by > forwarding the "manually installed" state automatically to the > new package?
You can use apt-mark to mark the new package as manually installed. -- Nito
