Comment 2 for bug 1098512

OK. So, as expected, lots more packages end up marked as auto-installed following this change (see attachment). I think that was pretty much inevitable. I've looked through the changes and they all seem broadly reasonable, though - the top-level metapackages and such are still marked as manually installed. In some ways I suppose you might argue that this is really better, although it does mean that people who remove metapackages will see lots of stuff offered for autoremove - but they might even want that sometimes, and we did always say that people who removed our metapackages were on their own.

I think this is about the best we can reasonably do in the circumstances.