On 29/05/08 at 13:24 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Heya, > > For some time now, I have been thinking about the problem of packages > which are removed from the archive at some point, without an (enforced) > transition to a new package name. Users of such packages keep them > around, usually never noticing the fact that no security (or other) > support is available anymore. > > Our current package management doesn't handle this case at all, so we > might need to fix this - we just need to decide how. The probably > easiest way would be to make apt whine on all packages that are not > available in any version at one of the locations specified in > sources.list. This trivial solution sucks, because locally created > packages [1] also fall in this category. So, has anyone a good idea > solving this problem, without needing to keepr masses of status/diff/bla > files around? I usually run 'apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate' to find them. The remaining list is short enough to be analyzed manually. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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