Bug#841311: mk-build-deps: Please mark dependencies as auto-installed

[James McCoy]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 04:30:00PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> when installing build-dependencies of a package, I usually use
> (sudo) mk-build-depends -i
> 
> All the dependencies that are installed by that command are marked as
> manually installed.

They shouldn't be.  That didn't happen with any of my recent uses of
mk-build-deps.

> As a result, removing the foo-build-deps package again, will not
> autoremove the pulled in dependencies.
> It would be nice if those were marked as auto so a
> apt autoremove can clean those up.

Just to test, I removed one of the build-deps packages I had installed
and apt told me all the dependencies could be removed.

Have you changed the install command used by mk-build-deps?

Cheers,
-- 
James
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