Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : apt-suggest-auto Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto * License : GPL-2.0-or-later Programming Lang: Python Description : Suggests and optionally marks manually installed packages as automatic apt-suggest-auto is a tool designed to help manage installed packages by identifying those that were manually installed but could be marked as automatically installed. This is particularly useful for maintaining a clean package list and ensuring that packages serving solely as dependencies are correctly flagged. It is aimed as a replacement for tools like debfoster or deborphan. Currently it lives at https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/apt-suggest-auto (but the package is not ready for upload yet). That functionality should be added to APT at some point. Initially I wanted to wait until this is included in APT, and there's an MR at https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/502 . But (0) I find myself using the python version quite frequently; (1) there's still some work to do before the MR gets merged; (2) it's still useful as a separate tool in the meantime, to be able to backport the tool to stable releases and perform cleanup before upgrades.
