Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Or use the aptitude frontend for package management which will show such
> packages under the header "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages".
Thanks for reminding this very obvious feature which helped me
removing about 20 obsolete packages from my laptop
Karl Chen wrote:
> Good points, I also discovered Synaptic works well for manually
> looking for removed packages. Notifying PTS subscribers by email
> also sounds very useful. Still, I worry about the people who
> don't know to check for removed packages - and aren't watching
> the packages that
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto:
> > It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages
> > that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obso
> On 2008-03-11 06:52 PDT, Lucas Nussbaum writes:
Lucas> If you are only interested in a few packages, you could
Lucas> subscribe to them on the PTS. I recently worked on a
Lucas> script to notify PTS subscribers ('summary' keyword)
Lucas> when the package is orphaned or remove
Joachim Breitner wrote:
>
> A solution that’s possible without big changes would be a package
> "removal-notifier" which contains a manual list of removed packages
> (which needs to be maintained by someone of course) and can tell the
> user about packages he has installed but that are on that lis
Hi,
Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2008, 05:23 -0700 schrieb Karl Chen:
> Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem?
> How can we move towards implementing something like this? What
> other ideas are there for dealing with disappearing packages?
A solution that’s possible without
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:23:45 -0700, Karl Chen wrote:
> Thoughts? What have I missed? Existing solutions or non-problem?
Not a general solution probably but maybe interesting for you is the
following RSS feed:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/~joerg/removals/removals.rss
Cheers,
gregor
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:59:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
[...]
> I'd suggest to file wishlist bugreports against any package
> management frontend (not including apt) that does not in some way
> mark packages that are no longer available in the archive (or
> rather, in the sources defined in the
Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto:
> It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages
> that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obsolete
> and Locally Created Packages". Verifying that this doesn't include any
> packages that I ex
Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 11/03/08 at 05:23 -0700, Karl Chen wrote:
> To get the list of packages that are installed, but are no longer part
> of the archive, I use
>apt-show-versions |grep 'No available version in archive'
Or use the aptitude frontend for package management which will show s
Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think
> it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no
> automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package
> depending on a replacement package or conflicting w
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:23:45AM -0700, Karl Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think
> it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no
> automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package
> depending on a replacement pac
Hi,
Olivier Berger schrieb:
> FYI, according to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464021 I suppose that
> users having subscribed to packages in the PTS should now be notified of
> such removals (which used not to be the case, and worried us a great
> deal some weeks ago ;)
this
On 11/03/08 at 05:23 -0700, Karl Chen wrote:
> I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think
> it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no
> automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package
> depending on a replacement package or conflicting wit
Le mardi 11 mars 2008 à 05:23 -0700, Karl Chen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think
> it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no
> automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package
> depending on a replacement pack
Hi Karl,
* Karl Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-11 13:51]:
> I would like to bring up the issue of removed packages. I think
> it is problematic that sometimes packages get removed, with no
> automatic transition [a transitional package, or another package
> depending on a replacement package or
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