Bug#274818: Please add option to work from Packages (or available) instead of status

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Hey
wontfix 274818 thanks Hi! I think it would be useful to be able to analyze the dependencies of a Debian package pool in order to possibly identify e.g. old libraries that no one needs any longer. I just asked someone from the release team whether this would be a useful feature for them and

Bug#274818: Please add option to work from Packages (or available) instead of status

2008-03-13 Thread Andras Korn
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:25:24PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: Hi, I think it would be useful to be able to analyze the dependencies of a Debian package pool in order to possibly identify e.g. old libraries that no one needs any longer. I just asked someone from the release team whether

Bug#274818: Please add option to work from Packages (or available) instead of status

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Use case: if you have your own package pool which includes old and/or orphaned packages from Debian that are no longer a part of the official archive, it would be good to know which old libraries are safe to get rid of. I used to have such a pool with packages such as 'xv', 'spamdb' and quite