[Testing - Trixie] apt dist-upgrade wants to remove packages it shouldn't

[Dosh]

Hi, about a week ago running apt dist-upgrade started to mark a bunch of packages as installed automatically. Sorry I don't have the system set to English, but the relevant parts are the first list of "packages installed automatically that are no longer needed" and the second "these packages will be REMOVED".

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Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe
Budowanie drzewa zależności... Gotowe
Odczyt informacji o stanie... Gotowe   
Obliczanie aktualizacji... Gotowe
Następujące pakiety zostały zainstalowane automatycznie i nie są już więcej wymagane:
  colord-data fonts-liberation2 gimp-data libamd3 libann0 libatk-bridge2.0-0:i386 libatk1.0-0:i386 libatspi2.0-0:i386
  libbabl-0.1-0 libcamd3 libcapi20-3 libccolamd3 libcdt5 libcgraph6 libcholmod4 libcloudproviders0:i386 libcolord2:i386
  libcolorhug2 libcurl3-gnutls:i386 libepoxy0:i386 libgdbm-compat4:i386 libgdbm6:i386 libgegl-0.4-0 libgegl-common
  libgexiv2-2 libgimp2.0 libglu1-mesa:i386 libgphoto2-port12 libgtk-3-0:i386 libgts-0.7-5 libgts-bin libgvpr2
  libieee1284-3:i386 liblab-gamut1 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libnsl2:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386
  libopengl0:i386 libosmesa6 libpathplan4 libpci3:i386 libpcsclite1:i386 libperl5.36:i386 libpoppler-glib8
  libpoppler-glib8:i386 libpoppler126:i386 libsane-common libsane1:i386 libsnmp-base libsnmp40 libsnmp40:i386
  libtirpc3:i386 libumfpack6 libwmf-0.2-7 libwrap0:i386 sane-airscan wine-staging-i386:i386
Aby je usunąć należy użyć "sudo apt autoremove".
Następujące pakiety zostaną USUNIĘTE:
  colord fcitx-m17n gimp graphviz ibus-m17n kamera libc-devtools libgphoto2-6 libgvc6 libsane1 libwine sane-utils
  wine-staging wine-staging-amd64 wine64
Następujące pakiety zostały zatrzymane:
  libavif15:i386 libavif15 libgd3 libgd3:i386
0 aktualizowanych, 0 nowo instalowanych, 15 usuwanych i 4 nieaktualizowanych.
Po tej operacji zostanie zwolnione 1 488 MB miejsca na dysku.
Kontynuować? [T/n] 

What's really weird is that if I do choose to do this and then reinstall GIMP, it wants to get rid of it again: https://files.catbox.moe/vsmf0f.png
I also still get this after reverting to the Timeshift snapshot from before this started happening.

[Dosh]

The problem fixed itself and it no longer wants to remove things. I'm guessing it was related to the halted packages (libavig15 and libgd3) because yesterday it got even worse with a couple more packages getting halted, and the list of packages to be removed was even longer. (I didn't save the list, but I remember LibreOffice and even Dolphin were there)

[pbear]

Sorry I don't have the system set to English, ...

For future reference, you don't need to. For English output, simply prefix the command with LC_ALL=C. Give it a try (no need to post the test) so you see how it works.

[None1975]

He, he...This is joy of testing (or unstable)

[solrak]

I observed the same thing a long time ago. I have the impression that it is because those packages are not in the testing repositories. Later, if you notice, when the packages are back in testing it no longer tells you to delete them.
I keep the stable version repositories active.
Also I only do "apt upgrade".
And I don't update with "Discover updates".