It looks like this might be possible now. $ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn emacs23 Will remove the following packages from unstable:
emacs23 | 23.4+1-4.1 | source emacs23 | 23.4+1-4.1+b1 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc emacs23-bin-common | 23.4+1-4.1+b1 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc emacs23-common | 23.4+1-4.1 | all emacs23-el | 23.4+1-4.1 | all emacs23-lucid | 23.4+1-4.1+b1 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc emacs23-nox | 23.4+1-4.1+b1 | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390x, sparc Maintainer: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> ------------------- Reason ------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... No dependency problem found. Thanks to everyone for the help. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org