hi, On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 08:47:06PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > > again, I'm planning an small mass bug filing against obsolete transitional > > packages, which are at least marked "dummy transitional" since the buster > > release, > > Thanks for taking care of this! > > But I'm wondering if this wouldn't be a perfect task for a Debian Janitor > fixer > script, have you considered filing a task for this? After all those > transitional > deps are reliably detectable and fixable.
actually there's already a bug, #982655 (cc:ed), titled "scrub-obsolete: replace dependencies on transitional or removed packages" which I believed could be extended to also cover removing transitional packages which have been present for more than 2 releases. Jelmer, do you agree or do you want another bug for this feature request? -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ If we'd ban all cars from cities tomorrow, next week we will wonder why we waited for so long.
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