* cmdline/apt-get.cc:

  - deprecate mostly undocumented 'markauto' in favor of 'apt-mark'
* cmdline/apt-cache.cc:
  - deprecate mostly undocumented 'showauto' in favor of 'apt-mark'

cmdline/apt-cache.cc

@@ -1334,9 +1334,8 @@ bool Search(CommandLine &CmdL)
        return _error->Error("Write to stdout failed");
    return true;
 }
-
-
-/* show automatically installed packages (sorted) */
+									/*}}}*/
+/* ShowAuto - show automatically installed packages (sorted)		{{{*/
 bool ShowAuto(CommandLine &CmdL)
 {
    pkgCacheFile CacheFile;
@@ -1357,6 +1356,7 @@ bool ShowAuto(CommandLine &CmdL)
     for (vector<string>::iterator I = packages.begin(); I != packages.end(); I++)
             cout << *I << "\n";
 
+   _error->Notice(_("This command is deprecated. Please use 'apt-mark showauto' instead."));
    return true;
 }
 									/*}}}*/
@@ -1702,7 +1702,6 @@ bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &Cmd)
       "   unmet - Show unmet dependencies\n"
       "   search - Search the package list for a regex pattern\n"
       "   show - Show a readable record for the package\n"
-      "   showauto - Display a list of automatically installed packages\n"
       "   depends - Show raw dependency information for a package\n"
       "   rdepends - Show reverse dependency information for a package\n"
       "   pkgnames - List the names of all packages in the system\n"

cmdline/apt-get.cc

@@ -2050,8 +2050,8 @@ bool DoInstall(CommandLine &CmdL)
 
    return InstallPackages(Cache,false);   
 }
-
-/* mark packages as automatically/manually installed. */
+									/*}}}*/
+/* mark packages as automatically/manually installed.			{{{*/
 bool DoMarkAuto(CommandLine &CmdL)
 {
    bool Action = true;
@@ -2086,6 +2086,9 @@ bool DoMarkAuto(CommandLine &CmdL)
          AutoMarkChanged++;
       }
    }
+
+   _error->Notice(_("This command is deprecated. Please use 'apt-mark auto' and 'apt-mark manual' instead."));
+
    if (AutoMarkChanged && ! _config->FindB("APT::Get::Simulate",false))
       return Cache->writeStateFile(NULL);
    return false;
@@ -3184,8 +3187,6 @@ bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &CmdL)
       "   clean - Erase downloaded archive files\n"
       "   autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files\n"
       "   check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies\n"
-      "   markauto - Mark the given packages as automatically installed\n"
-      "   unmarkauto - Mark the given packages as manually installed\n"
       "   changelog - Download and display the changelog for the given package\n"
       "   download - Download the binary package into the current directory\n"
       "\n"

debian/changelog

@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ apt (0.8.14.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     - remove unused embedded jquery by doxygen from libapt-pkg-doc
   * cmdline/apt-mark.cc:
     - reimplement apt-mark in c++
+  * cmdline/apt-get.cc:
+    - deprecate mostly undocumented 'markauto' in favor of 'apt-mark'
+  * cmdline/apt-cache.cc:
+    - deprecate mostly undocumented 'showauto' in favor of 'apt-mark'
 
- -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>  Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:43:16 +0200
+ -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>  Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:57:41 +0200
 
 apt (0.8.14.1) unstable; urgency=low