Bug#1074134: Re-introduce deborphan package (Alternative: Provide guidance for alternatives)

2024-06-23 Thread satanic . surfer . 666
Package: deborphan Version: 1.7.35 Severity: wishlist As discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065312 deborphan is still a widely used and useful tool. Unfortunately the package got removed completely from Debian testing leaving users without it behind (now for testing

Bug#1065312: RM: deborphan -- ROM; missing too many dpkg features, thus broken and unreliable

2024-04-18 Thread satanic . surfer . 666
One addition, it seems Synaptic is internally also using deborphan: https://github.com/mvo5/synaptic/blob/0.91.3/common/raptoptions.cc#L202-L230 and the removal of deborphan seems to break this integration as well.

Bug#1065312: RM: deborphan -- ROM; missing too many dpkg features, thus broken and unreliable

2024-04-17 Thread satanic . surfer . 666
Hello everyone, just adding the following from a user-perspective: I was quite surprised that a tool i'm using since two decades and on a nearly weekly base is getting suddenly removed from Debian. And when looking at the title of the relevant bug report of the removal to notice a "broken and u