Re: Dropped Packages
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:19:00AM +0000, aurelio wrote:
> It is possible for packages to become "dropped".
>
> For example: you pick-up a package through
> stable-proposed-updates that does not actually
> make it into the next revision; or, in going
> from one version of stable to the next, a
> package is simply no longer included.
Hmm. Yes, packages do get orphaned and disappear from subsequent
releases.
> Is there any easy way to check for such
> dropped packages?
Don't know if there's any easy way, probably. Do know that aptitude
will display "obsolete" packages. Course, you have to be careful you
don't remove your custom built kernels...
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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