Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-04-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Justin B Rye wrote: > Justin B Rye wrote: >> [...] It seems to me we should put all our coverage of >> redundant packages in 4.4.3 (mentioning "apt-get autoremove" and >> avoiding the word "obsolete"), put all our coverage of relic packages >> in 4.9, and leave the two sections completely unconnec

Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: > Is it still true that deborphan is "highly recommended", or is that a > leftover from the days when it was the only tool that implemented any > of this functionality? > > And does popcon-largest-unused still work? It thinks I don't use my > web browser or window manager. Is

Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: > [...] It seems to me we should put all our coverage of > redundant packages in 4.4.3 (mentioning "apt-get autoremove" and > avoiding the word "obsolete"), put all our coverage of relic packages > in 4.9, and leave the two sections completely unconnected. Here's an attempt at

Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-04-01 Thread Justin B Rye
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Justin B Rye wrote: >>> * Run aptitude and look for the "Obsolete and Locally >>>Created Packages" category, which will contain packages >>>from previous releases that you never bothered to remove. >> >> These may be "obsolete", but unless they're *also

Bug#704424: release-notes: sufficient-space hints give confusing advice

2013-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release-notes Version: r9661 Tags: wheezy patch Justin B Rye wrote: > I don't see anything about "apt-get autoremove" in the copy I've just > checked out of SVN... nothing about that or aptitude's older support > for the same feature. Yeah, that was me guessing about the intent. There'