Comment 6 for bug 1479207

(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# dpkg -l apt apt-utils libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 | awk '/^.i/ {print $2 " " $3}'
apt 1.0.1ubuntu2
apt-utils 1.0.1ubuntu2
libapt-inst1.5:amd64 1.0.1ubuntu2
libapt-pkg4.12:amd64 1.0.1ubuntu2
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# echo "deb file:///home/adconrad/apt-test/ ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/test.list
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# cp Packages-broken Packages
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get update
[...]
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get install test-meta
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  test-kernel test-meta
[...]
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get --purge autoremove test-meta
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  test-meta*
[...]
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get --purge autoremove test-kernel
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# cp Packages-notbroken Packages
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get update
[...]
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get install test-meta
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  test-kernel test-meta
[...]
(trusty-amd64)root@nosferatu:/home/adconrad/apt-test# apt-get --purge autoremove test-kernel
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  test-kernel* test-meta*
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