* Carlo Segre: > The depended-on packages is not a very common one and I think it is > useful for the sysadmin to know that it is no longer needed. If the sysadmin cares about such things, she uses deborphan, aptitude or debfoster to find such packages. If NEWS.Debian is cluttered with such notices, fewer people will read the important ones, so I think it's a bad idea to put a notice there. (debconf would be even worse.)