Re: Fwd: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:54:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> was heard to say:
That's the difference between libraries and apps. An app will be
removed if the dependent libraries are removed (by user or Debian),
and libraries will be flagged for removal if the *user* removes the
only app that uses them.

But if an app is removed from a repository, apt won't tell you.

aptitude will put packages that have been removed from testing into a
separate category labeled "Obsolete and locally installed packages". In
unstable the command-line update also mentions if there are newly
obsolete packages after an update. You can get a list of obsolete
packages at the command-line by running

aptitude search "~o" (testing, unstable)
aptitude search "?obsolete" (unstable)

HTH,
Daniel


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