On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 13:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: block -1 by 877902 > Control: tags -1 patch > > Hi! > > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 20:33:20 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > Package: devscripts > > Version: 2.11.1 > > Severity: wishlist > > Does a command-line tool exist to search the reasons for removal of > > a > > package from testing/unstable? Basically something to parse > > > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-full.txt > > > > and give the user a reason. Similar to grep-excuses.
As a note on the above, ftp-master's removals files don't contain any information on removals from testing (because those aren't performed by "dak rm", which is what generates the log). > Yeah, I was also tired of wgetting and grepping these files by hand > every time a package disappeared from my systems, so I wrote such a > program. FWIW, there's also the "removed?" script in release-tools - https://sal sa.debian.org/release-team/release-tools/blob/master/scripts/removed%3F Regards, Adam
