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If a topic is marked for deletion, --describe will return the following:

Topic Topic:testtopic    PartitionCount:1    ReplicationFactor:1    Configs:cleanup.policy=compact    - marked for deletioncompact,flush.ms=1000    MarkedForDeletion:true
    Topic: testtopic    Partition: 0    Leader: none    Replicas: 0   0    Isr:

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

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