On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:10:15AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > The one non-cosmetic reason I can think of why transitional packages > > are potentially bad is that they aren't removed automatically, so systems > > that have been upgraded many times can end up with a lot of transitional > > packages; > > If transitional packages either had a debtag or a control file field > that identified them, then tools like deborphan could easily be made to > find and remove them Oh they already do (both the oldlibs section and the "dummy" description substring are supported by deborphan), but deborphan needs to be run manually. -- WBR, wRAR
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