Thanks a lot for this! I have wanting to do something similar for a while since I had some bug in apt-mark which marked all packages from i386 as manually installed.
Cheers, Stephan On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > * Package name : apt-suggest-auto > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Contact: Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> > * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto > * License : GPL-2.0-or-later > Programming Lang: Python > Description : Suggests and optionally marks manually installed packages > as automatic > > apt-suggest-auto is a tool designed to help manage installed packages by > identifying those that were manually installed but could be marked as > automatically installed. This is particularly useful for maintaining a > clean package list and ensuring that packages serving solely as > dependencies are correctly flagged. It is aimed as a replacement for tools > like debfoster or deborphan. > > Currently it lives at https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto > (but the package is not ready for upload yet). > > That functionality should be added to APT at some point. Initially I > wanted to wait until this is included in APT, and there's an MR > at https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/502 . > But (0) I find myself using the python version quite frequently; > (1) there's still some work to do before the MR gets merged; > (2) it's still useful as a separate tool in the meantime, to be able to > backport the tool to stable releases and perform cleanup before > upgrades. >
