On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 10:16:03PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> Not sure if you read the entire thread, I ended up writing a script to >> do this now. So, if you want to see packages that are currently >> installed on your system but not part of jessie, you can do the >> following. > > Thanks, I hadn't finished reading all the thread, but I'll be sure to look at > your script closely. > > my idle thoughts are we should make sure that this is something that can > easily > be determined using the standard tools on a Debian system, so I'm thinking > about > what enhancements to propose and to which tools. >
Yes, I agree. If standard tools can do it, it will be better. But based on my experience with [1] , I decided to write one myself to get things going. [1] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775771 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog