On Fri 05 Jun 2020 at 12:01:32 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: [...]
> Nowadays, my regular upgrade-against-testing routine - carried out at > least weekly, if not daily - consists of the following (with adjustments > to account for undesired installations, removals, bugs as reported by > apt-listbugs, et cetera): > > $ apt-get update > $ apt-get dist-upgrade > $ apt-get autoremove > $ apt-get remove $(deborphan) > > And if the deborphan step finds anything, I go back to the autoremove > step, and repeat until neither of them has found anything. > > When I first started with deborphan, it took me somewhere between three > and six repetitions of that pair of commands before I got to that point. > Now, I can't even remember the last time deborphan found anything, > because the system is already clean in this regard - but I still keep it > up, just to make sure that doesn't change. An aside regarding deborphan: it finds packages that haven't any packages depending on them. This may lead to the removal of a useful package. For example, libsane-hpaio (installed without recommended packages). -- Brian.