Hi all, I had an interesting mail thread with Daniel who is a developer of aptitude. Here's the synopsis of the same.
I can find obsolete packages using aptitude such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search "~o" |more Now my query is, is there a way to know by what has a package been obsoleted. From what little I have understood of obsolete packages in Ubuntu/debian obsolete packages mean either those packages which have nobody to maintain or something or whose functionality has been superseded by some other packageAny way to know what the package has been obsoleted by?. [quote] This information is not stored in any way that aptitude can get at it, so no, you can't find this out. In fact, I don't believe there's any tool that can do this, because the information isn't published in a machine-readable form anywhere (please correct me if I'm wrong). You could maybe search for packages that replace or conflict with your obsolete package, but that's a scattershoot approach, at best. [/quote] Now this I find very saddening if one cannot do this. Does anybody know any tool which does something what I have outlined above. In aptitude ver. 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu1 one comes to know of obsolete packages but doesn't tell anything more as to what its superseded with. Looking forward to comments, additions and suggestions to the same. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
