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has caused the Debian Bug report #421704,
regarding deborphan: should recursively check for orphans
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Package: deborphan
Version: 1.7.23
Severity: wishlist
Here is an example of the problem I encounter on a regular basis:
package App depends on libB
package libB depends on libC
package libC depends on libD
Say we remove App, then libB becomes an orphan and deborphan correctly returns
it. However, once we remove libB, libC becomes an orphan (it wasn't before)
and then libD becomes an orphan only when libC is removed.
Strictly speaking, this is correct. However, in practice, what we really want
I believe is to get a list of orphans and their dependencies. Otherwise, one
needs to do the following to get rid of all unnecessary packages:
$ apt-get remove App
$ deborphan
libB
$ apt-get remove libB
$ deborphan
libC
$ apt-get remove libC
$ deborphan
libD
$ apt-get remove libD
I think it would be nice to be able to get this once App is removed:
$ deborphan
libB
libC
libD
$ apt-get remove libB libC libD
Perhaps an extra option (--recursive or --include-dependencies) would be
better, but I don't really see the use of ignoring these
not-technically-orphans-yet-but-still-unnecessary packages.
Francois
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.7.35+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package deborphan has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1065312
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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