Re: linux-source-4.18 and other old kernel-related packages are uninstallable in sid
Thanks a lot for you quick reply.
Il 25/02/19 03:26, Paul Wise ha scritto:
> I expect that these are all cruft...
I've searched around for "cruft" packages and, if I have understood
correctly, all these are some kind of "phantom" packages that require
manual intervention for an effective removal.
I've looked at tracker.d.o [1] for linux source package but an
exhaustive information was not there, only an incomplete one that
summarize a partial list of cruft:
old binaries left on all: linux-doc-4.19, linux-headers-4.19.0-2-common,
linux-headers-4.19.0-2-common-rt, linux-source-4.19,
linux-support-4.19.0-2, lockdep (from 4.19.16-1) (but ignoring cruft, so
nevermind)
> ...I suggest that you switch to the current version of Linux in sid
> (4.19).
Sorry for the misunderstanding (due to my very poor english) but my
original purpose was not to install an old version of Linux kernel. I
wanted to know the "ratio" on having such kind of packages for the sake
of DDTSS translators.
I think this cruft matters beacause currently we have ~60000 entries in
Translation-en.bz2 file so ~60000 descriptions need to be translated by
DDTSS translators.
Unfortunately the cruft package descriptions are not phantoms and we
have to deal with them.
I would like to ask you whether there is some tool (program/script/internal
Debian machinery) to discover cruft packages or a public list of those. I know
my questions are not important at all, but a lot of time and energies can be
saved by having this list so that we (translators) can concentrate on "actual"
translations.
Thanks again for your efforts and your time.
Kind regards.
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux
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