Re: Checking reverse dependencies

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net>]

On 01/12/24 6:36 am, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am planning to upload new versions of some Go libraries, and before
> doing it I wanted to test that the reverse dependencies don't break.
> However, for these two I can't find any:
>
> # apt-cache rdepends golang-github-caarlos0-env
> E: No packages found
> # apt-cache rdepends golang-github-caarlos0-env-dev
> golang-github-caarlos0-env-dev
> Reverse Depends:
>
> # apt-cache rdepends golang-github-muesli-gitcha
> E: No packages found
> # apt-cache rdepends golang-github-muesli-gitcha-dev
> golang-github-muesli-gitcha-dev
> Reverse Depends:
>
> Why can't I find any?
>
> Why would somebody have put these libraries in Debian if nothing uses them?

Maybe because something used to depend on it; the dep got removed in a 
later version and noone filed an -rm for it?

-n