Packages installed via apt-get build-dep are marked for autoremove

Bug #1552962 reported by Doug McMahon
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apt (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Test case:
Go sudo apt-get autoremove, check status.
Then install via build-dep, ex., sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus
Recheck autoremove status, there will be numerous new additions.

Ex. here, autoremove came up clean, then after the above on nautilus -

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
[sudo] password for doug:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cdbs dh-autoreconf dh-migrations dh-translations docbook-to-man gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0
  gir1.2-gtk-2.0 gir1.2-tracker-1.0 gir1.2-zeitgeist-2.0 gnome-common gnome-pkg-tools gobject-introspection
  gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev gtk-doc-tools icu-devtools intltool libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libatspi2.0-dev
  libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libdbusmenu-glib-dev libdee-dev
  libdrm-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libepoxy-dev libexempi-dev libexif-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev libfontconfig1-dev
  libfreetype6-dev libgail-3-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgirepository1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-doc
  libgmpv4-dev libgmpxxv4-4 libgnome-desktop-3-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtk-3-doc libgtk2.0-dev libharfbuzz-dev
  libharfbuzz-gobject0 libice-dev libicu-dev libjs-jquery libmirclient-dev libmircommon-dev libmircookie-dev
  libmircookie2 libnotify-dev libpango1.0-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpcrecpp0v5 libpixman-1-dev libpng12-dev
  libprotobuf-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libselinux1-dev libsepol1-dev libsm-dev libtracker-control-1.0-0
  libtracker-miner-1.0-0 libtracker-sparql-1.0-dev libunity-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxau-dev
  libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev
  libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcb1-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev
  libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev
  libxkbfile-dev libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxshmfence-dev libxt-dev libxtst-dev libxxf86vm-dev
  libzeitgeist-2.0-dev nettle-dev python-mako python-markupsafe python-pkg-resources python-scour python-six
  x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-gl-dev
  x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-xext-dev
  x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xsltproc xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 129 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
After this operation, 210 MB disk space will be freed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: apt 1.2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-8.23-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Mar 3 18:26:00 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-27 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160225)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Fixed with apt (1.2.6

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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