[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#457391: pbuilder: autoremove no longer needed automatically installed packages

[Paul Wise]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.176
Severity: wishlist

Please add an option to automatically remove packages that were
automatically installed and are no longer needed. At the moment apt
complains after every update run that libcwidget0 is installed and isn't
needed by any package.

root at chianamo:~# cowbuilder --update 
 -> Copying COW directory
 -> Invoking pbuilder
W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist
 -> Running in no-targz mode
Upgrading for distribution sid
 -> copying local configuration
 -> mounting /proc filesystem
 -> mounting /dev/pts filesystem
 -> policy-rc.d already exists
Refreshing the base.tgz 
 -> upgrading packages
Hit ....
....
Reading package lists... Done                                                                                                                                                      
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove lilo which isn't installed.
Obtaining the cached apt archive contents
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
dpkg-dev is already the newest version.
apt is already the newest version.
aptitude is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcwidget0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Copying back the cached apt archive contents
 -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
 -> unmounting proc filesystem
 -> removing cowbuilder working copy

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.4.3      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5.6   The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   2.28.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.7      Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  gcc                           4:4.2.1-6  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.10.2-3   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  cowdancer                     0.44       Copy-on-write directory tree utili
ii  devscripts                    2.10.11    Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.8.10     Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.6.9p9-1  Provide limited super user privile

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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