Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?
On 2013-06-03 04:39:08 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:24:57PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > What I was wondering initially was: is libapache2-svn still needed
> > (in which case I should wait for a new version) or are its features
> > integrated in some other package (e.g. from the apache2 source)?
> > A tool analyzing the dependency system (such as apt-get) could
> > answer such a question automatically.
>
> I would look in the changes/NEWS files under /usr/share/doc/pkgname, but
> the trouble is you need to install them to see. :( I think the packages
> search page allows you to look at individual files.
That's an idea. Such packaging information is not always in NEWS,
but it should be in the ChangeLog, and one can get it with:
apt-get changelog <package>
(well, with some delay after the package appeared in the repository).
It can be quite verbose, in particular after a transition, but one
can do a search from the pager...
> Obviously, this isn't important/production or you wouldn't be running
> jessie! You could hold off updating untill you are satisfied of the
> answer. Personally, I'd be emailing the maintainer about now to see if
> there is a replacement package coming up?
Packages can be important even on personal Debian/unstable machines!
I don't like to have packages removed, and after a few days or weeks,
notice that something no longer works because of that.
On the other hand, I sometimes hold packages for a long time while
I could have upgraded them by allowing some unimportant package to
be removed (e.g. an obsolete library).
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