When/how does a topic “marked for deletion” get finally removed?

Question

I have issued the command to delete a topic:

./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic  vip_ips_alerts

It seemed to

Answer 1

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François Langelier *@gmail.com über kafka.apache.org 05:57 (vor 1 Stunde)

an users The delete topic isn't working ATM

I think it will be available in the next release https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1397