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and subject line Bug#388862: upgrade-system: Prevent automatic deborphan purges
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Package: upgrade-system
Severity: wishlist
###snip from NEWS.gz #####
UPGRADE-SYSTEM is configured to remove all Perl/Python/Ruby extensions and
development libraries that are NOT listed as another package's dependency,
which is a sensible default behavior for laymen's workstations.
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Deborphan keep file management can be used to workaround this default behavior.
You can add a package to deborphan keep file (/var/lib/deborphan/keep) with '
-A ' '--add-keep' to prevent a package from getting purged automatically. It
would be great if this information is provided in the package documentation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.18
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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On Sat, September 23, 2006 04:34, Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
> Package: upgrade-system
> Severity: wishlist
>
> ###snip from NEWS.gz #####
> UPGRADE-SYSTEM is configured to remove all Perl/Python/Ruby extensions and
> development libraries that are NOT listed as another package's dependency,
> which is a sensible default behavior for laymen's workstations.
> #######
>
> Deborphan keep file management can be used to workaround this default
> behavior. You can add a package to deborphan keep file
> (/var/lib/deborphan/keep) with ' -A ' '--add-keep' to prevent a package
> from getting purged automatically. It would be great if this information
> is provided in the package documentation.
Thanks for your bug report.
Alternately, deborphan behavior can be configured to more relaxed settings
in /etc/upgrade-system.conf as well. That NEWS item is just there to tell
people what the out-of-the-box settings are. Anyhow, I'm not interested in
turning upgrade-system documentation into a deborphan tutorial; I already
refer to the deborphan manual page in the documentation, which really is
more than enough. Hence, I'm closing this bug.
--
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi
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