On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 11:52:34AM +0000, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 22/12/2025 11:13, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > > This is part of your problem. Partially-upgraded systems are not really > > supported by Debian. Even though we *try* to specify versioned > > dependencies that force the required upgrades, the number of different > > configurations in a partially-upgraded system is infinite and it's > > impossible to catch all cases. > > Surely it should still be possible to accurately transcribe upstream > dependencies into the debian/control file?
It is, but upstream dependency metadata is not perfect either. > Everything *not* installed by some debian package? That sounds painful. Is > there a tool for that? cruft-ng
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