[email protected] wrote: > I would like to discover which currently installed packages in Bullseye (11) > will be obsolete (no longer available from a Debian repository) in Bookworm > (12) _before starting the upgrade process_. > > It might be that there is a list of the more than 6,296 packages removed as > obsolete (source: Debian press release), and I could compare to that list for > matches. Or, perhaps there is a list of the 64,419 packages in Bookworm and > I could find which ones are missing. > > How can I get thoses lists? Or is there another way to discover what I want > to know?
Those lists are the Packages files in each repo. You'll want to do some judicious grepping to extract the specific fields that you want. For a single machine, you could: * change apt sources.list * apt update * apt-get dist-upgrade -s capture the output of that simulation: it will tell you what it would remove. Then revert sources.list and re-update to get back to where you were. -dsr-
