Apt is fixed in feisty to take the meta packages into account. The release upgrader will take care of making sure that script I posed here is run during the upgrade to fix existing install.
Cheers, Michael ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- apt wants to autoremove packages i explicitly installed https://launchpad.net/bugs/86921 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs