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 GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB