Re: Determine packages made obsolete in Bookworm
On 2023-07-20 14:31 -0500, kjohnson@eclypse.org wrote:
> I would like to discover which currently installed packages in
> Bullseye (11) will be obsolete (no longer available from a Debian
> repository) in Bookworm (12) _before starting the upgrade process_.
>
> It might be that there is a list of the more than 6,296 packages
> removed as obsolete (source: Debian press release), and I could
> compare to that list for matches. Or, perhaps there is a list of the
> 64,419 packages in Bookworm and I could find which ones are missing.
>
> How can I get thoses lists? Or is there another way to discover what I want to know?
There is a way to find the obsolete packages installed on _your_ system,
which is probably what you really care about. After preparing your
sources.list to add the bookworm repositories and remove the bullseye
ones[1], run "apt update". Then "apt list '~o'" lists all the packages
which are no longer available. See apt-patterns(7).
Good luck,
Sven
1. https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
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