From jidanni at jidanni.org  Sat Nov 15 06:43:15 2025
From: jidanni at jidanni.org (Dan Jacobson)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:43:15 +0800
Subject: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#1120715: Add note about running install on
 packages marked as autoinstalled
Message-ID: <875xbbdce4.5.fsf@jidanni.org>

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-8
Severity: minor

The man page could note that not using:
           <package>&M
               Mark <package> as having been automatically installed.

           <package>&m
               Mark <package> as having been manually installed.
means don't change current mark.

In particular
# aptitude install somepak
will not unmark somepak as automatically installed, if that's what it
currently is marked as.

On the other hand,
# aptitude install somepak
not mark somepak as automatically installed, if it is not already installed.


From jidanni at jidanni.org  Sat Nov 15 06:47:34 2025
From: jidanni at jidanni.org (Dan Jacobson)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:47:34 +0800
Subject: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#1120716: make ":" and "=" work with upgrades
 too
Message-ID: <874iqvdc6x.5.fsf@jidanni.org>

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-8
Severity: minor

One would think that this might allow us to do a full-upgrade while
holding google-chrome-beta back just for this command,

# aptitude full-upgrade google-chrome-beta:
Marking package google-chrome-beta as keep
Marking package google-chrome-beta as keep
The following packages will NOT be UPGRADED:
  apt  apt-doc  apt-utils  cpp-15{a} (S: gcc-15-locales)  cpp-15-x86-64-linux-gnu{a} (S: cpp-15-doc, S: gcc-15-locales)  curl
  dhcpcd-base  emacs-common-non-dfsg  exim4  exim4-base  exim4-config  exim4-daemon-light  gcc-15-base{a}  gettext-base
  google-chrome-beta  gv  intel-microcode  libapt-pkg7.0{a}  libasan8{a}  libatomic1  libcbor0.10{a}  libcurl3t64-gnutls{a}
  libcurl4t64{a} (R: libcurl3)  libdebconfclient0  libgcc-s1{a} (R: libgcc1)  libgettextpo-dev  libgettextpo0  libgfortran5{a}
  libgomp1{a}  libgssapi-krb5-2{a} (S: krb5-doc, S: krb5-user)
  libgstreamer-gl1.0-0{a} (R: gstreamer1.0-gl, R: libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0)
  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0{a} (R: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, S: libvisual-0.4-plugins)
  libgstreamer1.0-0{a} (S: gstreamer1.0-tools)  libhwasan0{a}  libitm1{a}  libk5crypto3{a} (S: krb5-doc, S: krb5-user)
  libkrb5-3{a} (R: krb5-locales, S: krb5-doc, S: krb5-user)  libkrb5support0{a}  liblcms2-2{a} (S: liblcms2-utils)  liblsan0{a}
  libnspr4{a}  libobjc4{a}  libpq5{a} (S: libpq-oauth)  libquadmath0{a}  libstdc++6  libtidy58{a}  libtsan2{a}  libubsan1{a}
  libxml2-16{a}  libxml2-utils  make  procinfo  tidy  xli
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not upgraded.

Alas, apparently it messes the whole full-upgrade up. Nothing happens.
Well, perhaps it could be fixed to work as expected. Same with not only
":", but "=" also.

Currently they only work with "install".