Bug#1113974: ITP: apt-suggest-auto -- Suggests and optionally marks manually installed packages as automatic
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : apt-suggest-auto
Version : 0.1
Upstream Contact: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
* URL : https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto
* License : GPL-2.0-or-later
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Suggests and optionally marks manually installed packages as automatic
apt-suggest-auto is a tool designed to help manage installed packages by
identifying those that were manually installed but could be marked as
automatically installed. This is particularly useful for maintaining a
clean package list and ensuring that packages serving solely as
dependencies are correctly flagged. It is aimed as a replacement for tools
like debfoster or deborphan.
Currently it lives at https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto
(but the package is not ready for upload yet).
That functionality should be added to APT at some point. Initially I
wanted to wait until this is included in APT, and there's an MR
at https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/502 .
But (0) I find myself using the python version quite frequently;
(1) there's still some work to do before the MR gets merged;
(2) it's still useful as a separate tool in the meantime, to be able to
backport the tool to stable releases and perform cleanup before
upgrades.
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