keep users alert to packages deleted from debian
tbm> [tempest] has been removed from Debian unstable because it has
tbm> never released with stable, upstream is dead, and there was only one
tbm> single upload.
Hmmm, BTW this brings up that if one just does apt-get dist-upgrade,
one will accrue lots of removed packages as the years pass.
Indeed one might even tell friends to apt-get install such a package,
only to get the reply that there [now] is no such package. (So don't
casually remove it too as it will be tough to ever get back if one
needs it.)
Anyway, it seems no tool keeps users alert that some of their packages
are "no longer". Perhaps it should appear when one does
dist-upgrades, or maybe a deb orphan-like tool that one could run from crontab.
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