One of my servers has grown a collection of "unstable" packages, that I want to wrestle back to stable where possible.
(I don't think I could manage to get libc back without physical access to the box ...) I'd like to graph/see the dependencies for each target package, but apt-cache dotty produces geaphs that are far too big to be useful, so I may have to generate the data myself. Where does the package data live in useful form? I can read /var/lib/dpkg/status if I have to, it's parseable but not nice. Are there any other nice places (or even tools already written)? I'd like to identify orphan packages as well as dependencies of my target packages ... -jim
