> I wouldn't expect amend --ask-deps to silently drop the old
> dependencies, so I'd rather it not ignore the old dependencies.
> I'm not sure what a good UI would be though, short of adding
> a --remove-deps option which would seem quite heavyweight (though
> perhaps --unrecord provides a good precedent).
>
> Regardless of that, this patch in itself seems like a strict
> improvement on the previous situation.
I agree. Wrt a better UI, I think your old comment in the code has it
right: the old dependencies should be offered but default to 'yes, keep
them'. As this needs some (I think quite deep) refactoring of the patch
selection we'll have to postpone that.
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