In the manual page it also says that "This is equally to running apt-
mark auto for all installed packages." It is unclear from the wording if
it means all freshly installed packages (meaning here the packages no
version of which were installed before) or also packages that were
upgraded/downgraded
The behavior displayed in the bug report matches the description in the
manual page quoted in comment 4, notably:
> mark all freshly installed packages as automatically installed
As such, the --mark-auto option does not affect packages which are
already installed, and they are subject to the usua
man page of apt-get tells:
--mark-auto
After successful installation, mark all freshly installed packages
as automatically installed, which will cause each of the packages to be removed
when no more manually installed packages depend on this package. This is
equally to running apt-ma
It seems on upgrades/downgrades (by apt install) auto state of a package
is kept even without --mark-auto, if there is a reverse dependency of
the package installed. But with same command, if the version happens to
be the same in the repository, the package is marked as manually
installed. So if I
And the with the same option (without --mark-auto) it would not change
any package marked as manual to auto.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2100937
Title:
apt install --mark-auto does
