update-manager marks updated packages as "Manually installed"

[<anonymized>]

Binary package hint: update-manager

In Ubuntu Natty, update-manager marks any packages that it upgraded as "Manually installed"; it didn't in Maverick and before.

I don't know if this is actually a bug or in fact the new expected behaviour, but it loses information about the state of the package database. I generally mark almost all packages on my system as automatically installed; since Natty, I always have to change that flag on a lot of packages after using update-manager.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.150
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 14 20:27:35 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-22 (22 days ago)

[Yung-Chin Oei (yungchin)]

Confirmed: I see the same behaviour on a system that now runs 12.04 (Precise).

(I believe fkrull is right that this was a problem for quite a while already, but have never paid attention to it much, as more than 9 out of 10 upgrades I run out of aptitude)

Desired behaviour: update-manager would play nice with M-flags, applying them to packages it upgrades, or installs as dependencies.

Workaround for now: run aptitude full-upgrade instead.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained