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Re: Packaged marked for removal -> last chance to adopt them!



Adi Stav <stav@actcom.co.il> wrote:
>This has worried me before: is there a way for users of removed
>packages to be informed by the system when packages they use are
>removed? I feel uncomfortable thinking that any package I have
>installed might be removed and I will have no way to be aware that I
>am no longer receiving security fixes for it.

If you use dselect, the packages in question will be marked as
Obsolete/Local. The various apt frontends probably have something
similar.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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