Bug#764686: mk-build-deps: --remove not working anymore

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 10 octobre 2014 08:00 -0400, James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org> :

>> When running the following command:
>> 
>>   mk-build-deps -s sudo -i -r debian/control
>> 
>> the package is not removed after installation of its dependencies. It
>> worked with previous versions. Maybe this is because of the fix of
>> #757481?
>
> What specifically isn't working?  Prior to #757481 being fixed, the *.deb would
> not be removed but this was fixed in 2.14.7.
>
> The command works as expected for me:
>
> $ ls *.deb
> zsh: no matches found: *.deb
[...]

For me, --remove does not mean remove from the filesystem but remove the
package from the system (dpkg --remove). I am pretty sure this is what
happened previously.
-- 
panic("Unable to find empty mailbox for aha1542.\n");
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c
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