This no longer appears to be the case in bionic (which is what I have to hand at the moment to test).
That said, while the situation you report isn't necessarily ideal, it's also not something we would regard as a bug. ubuntu-desktop makes a certain set of opinionated choices about what packages should be installed on a standard desktop system, but it's quite possible that the packages that something else needs to be build will conflict with that; we make no guarantees about that sort of thing. You should normally build source packages in a chroot (e.g. using sbuild) or a container to avoid problems of this kind and to avoid pollution from other things you happen to have installed. ** Changed in: gnuplot (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977243 Title: sudo apt-get build-dep gnuplot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnuplot/+bug/977243/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs