Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days
On 07/10/13 23:04, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing,
> the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the
> removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems.
> This, then, cause stable releases to be missing packages that users
> are depending on, which reduce the value of the distribution.
`aptitude search '?obsolete'` is useful after upgrading a system to a
new stable release, a trick I learned from:
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/07/debian-cleanup-tip-2-get-rid-of-obsolete-packages/
Not directly related to this: a side effect of running debsecan is that
if I see security issues accumulating for some package, I would likely
check the PTS to see why it remains unfixed, or decide to remove or
replace the package with something else that's still maintained.
So if `aptitude search '?obsolete'` was run periodically, like debsecan,
it could email the system admin when new items appear on the obsoletes
list. I imagine that'd be a good way to notify of the situation being
described here?
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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