Please document more clearly the purpose of debian-builder to help prevent uninformed invocations that remove the whole system

[Hernan Giovagnoli]

The exact command I executed was "debian-builder --help". In fact, I cancelled the process as soon as I realised what was going on. The command showed me several packages names (I suppose all installed on my PC) and started to remove (also conffiles) all of them alphabetically. I stopped it with Ctrl+C, then had to configure all of them and finally install those which had been purged.

I had no real consequences (after all), but I don't know what the command tried to do. Also, I was just looking how to use the package, since I didn't know it.

The package version is 1.6 on i386 architecture. I have Kubuntu 7.10 up to date.

[Panagiotis Malakoudis (malakudi)]

Just wanted to confirm the problem in my system as well. Downloaded debian-builder from apt archive, installed, run debian-builder --help and packages one after another started to get purged. It was a disaster!!!!

System was Ubuntu 7.10 Server, x86/32bit

[Deepak Tripathi (gnumonk)]

This bug has been fixed in Debian :) version 1.8

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

This bug has been marked as Fix Committed for over a year. If the fix has made it into Ubuntu, please mark this bug as Fix Released. If the fix has been released upstream, but not Ubuntu, create a new bug asking for the new version and tag it with upgrade-software-version. If this bug has not been fixed anywhere, change the status back to Confirmed.