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Bug#785238: marked as done (Suggest apt-forktracer as a way to discover third-party packages)

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Package: release-notes

4.2 "Checking system status" says:

  The upgrade process described in this chapter has been designed for upgrades
  from “pure” wheezy systems without third-party packages. For the greatest reliability
  of the upgrade process, you may wish to remove third-party packages from your system
  before you begin upgrading.

However it does not say how to find such packages on one's system.

There are probably many ways to do this, but an easy one is to install the apt-forktracer package and just run apt-forktracer. It will list those installed packages:
- which are not available from an official Debian repository, or
- whose installed version is more recent than the one in an official Debian repository
which I think is a good approximation of the packages mentioned in that section.


Example output on a wheezy system which shows some non-Debian packages, and locally patched packages.

porridge@butla:~$ apt-forktracer | sort
adobereader-enu (9.5.5)     # 
bambam (0.5+dfsg-0.1)
command-runner-applet (0.3-1) [Debian: 0.2-2]
exiftran (2.07-10.1) [Debian: 2.07-10+b1]
google-chrome-stable (42.0.2311.152-1) [Google, Inc.: 42.0.2311.152-1]
how-can-i-help (7~bpo70+1)
skype (4.3.0.37-1)
xscreensaver-data (5.15-3.1) [Debian: 5.15-3]
xscreensaver-gl (5.15-3.1) [Debian: 5.15-3]
xscreensaver (5.15-3.1) [Debian: 5.15-3]
porridge@butla:~$ 

It may be too late to change this for jessie, but please consider adding this info for stretch.

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On Wed, 13 May 2015 20:07:52 +0200 Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl> wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> 
> 4.2 "Checking system status" says:
> 
>   The upgrade process described in this chapter has been designed for
> upgrades
>   from “pure” wheezy systems without third-party packages. For the greatest
> reliability
>   of the upgrade process, you may wish to remove third-party packages from
> your system
>   before you begin upgrading.
> 
> However it does not say how to find such packages on one's system.
> 
> There are probably many ways to do this, but an easy one is to install the
> apt-forktracer package and just run apt-forktracer. It will list those
> installed packages:
> - which are not available from an official Debian repository, or
> - whose installed version is more recent than the one in an official Debian
> repository
> which I think is a good approximation of the packages mentioned in that
> section.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> It may be too late to change this for jessie, but please consider adding
> this info for stretch.
> 
> -- 
> Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>              http://marcin.owsiany.pl/
> GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216  FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75  D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216
> 
> "Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail."
>                                                             -- Unknown


Thanks, added a paragraph about using either apt-forktracer or aptitude
in [r11456].

~Niels

[r11456]:
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp?view=revision&revision=11456

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