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[Jeffery Wilkins <djcanadianjeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I just spent close to an hour helping a new user of ubuntu who kept
purging a meta package and did not tell me he had other packages
installed so what could have save us both lots of time would be to
remove child packages as well

in this example he was trying to purge mysql-server which was the meta package
what he had installed was mysql-server-5.5 and mysql-server-core-5.5
he never told me he had mysql-server-5.5 and mysql-server-core-5.5
which caused wasted time effort and energy trying to solve his problem

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: apt 1.1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-2.11-generic 4.3.0
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 11 03:45:14 2015
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial

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Title:
  removing a meta package should also remove its children

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I just spent close to an hour helping a new user of ubuntu who kept
  purging a meta package and did not tell me he had other packages
  installed so what could have save us both lots of time would be to
  remove child packages as well

  in this example he was trying to purge mysql-server which was the meta package
  what he had installed was mysql-server-5.5 and mysql-server-core-5.5
  he never told me he had mysql-server-5.5 and mysql-server-core-5.5
  which caused wasted time effort and energy trying to solve his problem

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: apt 1.1.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-2.11-generic 4.3.0
  Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Dec 11 03:45:14 2015
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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