Re: On replacing orphaned packages
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:00:40AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> As far as I can tell, no modules depend on it - Maybe I am searching for
> this the wrong way, but...
>
> # grep libiniconf-perl -r /var/lib/apt/lists/|grep -v Binary:|grep -v Directory:|grep -v Package:|grep -v Filename:
Use the grep-dctrl package: it's much simpler.
grep-available -FPre-Depends,Depends,Recommends,Suggests libiniconf-perl
That returns nothing for me on either stable or unstable.
> Now, as the packages are currently orphaned - Would the previous
> maintainer be the right person to address so they will ask ftpmaster to
> drop it?
That would do no harm, but really the QA group now gets to decide, so
you could just reference this discussion in a bug against
ftp.debian.org. I agree that libiniconf-perl should be removed.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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