> I would like to discover which currently installed packages in Bullseye (11) > will be obsolete (no longer available from a Debian repository) in Bookworm > (12) _before starting the upgrade process_.
> It might be that there is a list of the more than 6,296 packages removed as > obsolete (source: Debian press release), and I could compare to that list for > matches. Or, perhaps there is a list of the 64,419 packages in Bookworm and > I could find which ones are missing. > How can I get thoses lists? Or is there another way to discover what I want > to know? Thank you for the helpful replies. I happen to prefer Mr. Wright's approach (fetch https://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz, compare to list of locally installed packages), though I used 'comm' rather than diff. This gave me 169 items; 55 did not begin with lib. Ken
