Le 08/10/2013 18:46, Geoffrey Thomas a écrit : > On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > >> I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing, >> the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the >> removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems. > > Would this be addressed by building some mechanism (making tombstone > packages comes to mind, but there are many options) for apt to prompt > to remove packages that were removed in the archive?
For myself, I often use a non-official package made by a friend: the apt-moreutils pacakge[1] and, more precisely, the apt-origins tool in this package. It allows me to easily see how many and which packages come from each of my APT sources. If a version of a package is not in any of my sources (either because I do not upgrade it or because it disappeared from the APT repo), it is listed into the "Installed" catch-all final group. Regards, Vincent [1] http://debian.dubacq.fr/html/srcpkg.apt-moreutils.html (truncated) output example on a not up-to-date machine: vdanjean@eyak:~$ apt-origins ,------------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Debian FR unstable | `------------------------------------------------------------------------------' Too many packages (3933). Use --tabular or --lines=X (x>=3933). ,------------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Unofficial Multimedia Packages unstable | `------------------------------------------------------------------------------' autopano-sift-c deb-multimedia-keyring ffmpeg flashplayer-mozilla [...] ,------------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Debian FR testing | `------------------------------------------------------------------------------' bsd-mailx gedit gedit-common geoip-database git-buildpackage gnupg gpgv [...] ,------------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Debian FR stable | `------------------------------------------------------------------------------' biblatex gir1.2-tracker-0.14 gnome-mag libatspi1.0-0 libclucene0ldbl libdconf0 ,------------------------------------------------------------------------------. | installed | `------------------------------------------------------------------------------' doc-linux-text gcj-4.7-base gcj-4.7-jre gcj-4.7-jre-headless gcj-4.7-jre-lib [...] => it seems I will need to remove all gcc 4.7 stuff -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pkgs: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525466f0.9090...@free.fr