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

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 10 octobre 2014 14:00 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat 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.

The manual file says "remove the package file", so I was wrong.
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