Re: Fwd: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:54:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> was heard to say:
> That's the difference between libraries and apps.  An app will be
> removed if the dependent libraries are removed (by user or Debian),
> and libraries will be flagged for removal if the *user* removes the
> only app that uses them.
> 
> But if an app is removed from a repository, apt won't tell you.

  aptitude will put packages that have been removed from testing into a
separate category labeled "Obsolete and locally installed packages".  In
unstable the command-line update also mentions if there are newly
obsolete packages after an update.  You can get a list of obsolete
packages at the command-line by running

  aptitude search "~o" (testing, unstable)
  aptitude search "?obsolete" (unstable)

    HTH,
  Daniel