On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:25:24PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote:
Hi,
> > I think it would be useful to be able to analyze the dependencies of a
> > Debian package pool in order to possibly identify e.g. old libraries
> > that no one needs any longer.
>
> I just asked someone from the release team whether this would be a
> useful feature for them and he denied it. So although this feature would
> be relatively trivial to implement I will probably not do this since I
> don't see any use case for it.
>
> If you or anyboby else can imagine a use case for this (except usage by
> the release team), please attach an explanation to this bug and remove
> the wontfix tag.
Use case: if you have your own package pool which includes old and/or
orphaned packages from Debian that are no longer a part of the official
archive, it would be good to know which old libraries are safe to get rid
of. I used to have such a pool with packages such as 'xv', 'spamdb' and
quite a few others (and their dependencies) when I filed this bug.
I'm not removing the wontfix tag, because you may not agree this is a valid
use case.
Andras
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