[Deborphan-devel] Bug#421704: deborphan should recursively check for orphans

[Vincent Lefevre]

First, this bug has been marked as pending for years. Any news?

On 2007-05-02 10:10:47 +1200, Francois Marier wrote:
> On 5/2/07, Peter Palfrader <weasel at debian.org> wrote:
> >With orphaner, the dialog frontend, you can simlute just that.
> 
> I have a cronjob which checks daily for unnecessary packages on the
> machines I maintain and emails me if it finds anything that can be
> removed.
[...]

Moreover, even interactively, this is completely impractical when
one has several hundreds of packages in the list.

What I was thinking of would be something like:

  deborphan --guess-debug --recursive | grep -v .-dbg

in order to find which library packages that could be removed, as the
presence of -dbg packages defeats the purpose of deborphan (I don't
want to remove the -dbg packages associated with library packages
that are still needed). This would allow one to resolve bug 742196
in a quite satisfactory way (though not ideal).

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