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Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename



On Mi, 13 mai 20, 10:47:32, David Wright wrote:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages
> 
> I think I understand how that's expected to work now. Checking on two
> top-level packages I have removed (cryptsetup/pdftk), I notice that
> though they are in Sections admin/text in the Packages list, their
> internal Section is oldlibs in buster versions of control; control
> is not a file I normally peruse, but deborphan does, I presume.
> 
> What I don't know is when this Section category is acted upon if
> I do nothing. 

It is not acted upon at all. The package will probably be removed from 
the next release, but even then, there is no automatic removal. You have 
to take care of that yourself.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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