Comment 21 for bug 424643

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 07:37:37AM -0000, Vitaliy Pomazyonkov wrote:
> No we not. Ubuntu 8.04 (previous LTS) doesn't has this bug. It seems
> that bug appear only in Jaunty (i will check it in Intrepid).

We have never saved the information you're asking for in the installer.
Sure, it may be that it didn't matter much in the UI before Jaunty.

The design was always supposed to be that we'd install tasks, and apt
would remember that those tasks should stay installed. It appears that
it does not remember this - but the alternatives open to the installer
carry a variety of risks. In particular, installing metapackages would
be a pain since not all the tasks we install during installation have a
metapackage, and inconsistency carries its own risks; not to mention
that it is not clear in all cases what would happen with Recommends.

> Colin, please, stop leaving comments about how you don't want to know
> about this bug, just try to find it's cause, maybe it will not take to
> much time, if not, you can stop anytime.

You are putting words into my mouth. I did not say that I did not want
to know about this bug; I merely explained that it is not critical, and
gave my reasoning, in response to several comments asking for increased
importance. You said that it was an easy fix, and I am asking you to
back this statement up with a detailed explanation of that fix, since
having such a detailed explanation would no doubt speed up resolution of
this bug.

Note that any fix needs to make sure to defend against accidentally
declaring packages to be autoremovable when they are not.