RE: Orphaned Packages
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:04, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> | > Is there a(n) [easy] way to cross-reference packages that are
> | > installed in a system to packages that have been orphaned? My intent
> | > is see if there is anything on my system that might need taken up.
> |
> | deborphan(1), if I'm understanding your question.
>
> Not quite. Deborphan will show me packages that have nothing depending on
> them and can be safely removed. I would like to contribute more to the
> project and the next best way I can think of is to take up an orphaned
> package. I have looked through the wnpp lists, and nothing strikes me as
> something I use daily that I just gotta have a newer version. However,
> there may be something on my system that I used semi-infrequently that I may
> NOT KNOW I use that I could take a stab at updating. Just a thought.
Maybe there is a package or 2 who's sid version is sufficiently
far behind upstream that you could take it over from the current
(probably severely overworked) package maintainer.
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