This is the designed, intended, and expected behaviour. We do not want
to enable a user to be able to accidentally remove large groups of
packages due to Depends: declarations.
The suggested behaviour is treated as a critical bug. See bug #1479207
"Never-MarkAuto-Sections not working correctly"
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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removing a meta package should also remove its children
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