Package: gtkorphan
Severity: wishlist
Please use deborphan's --print-guess-list option described below to
generate @GuessList in lib/gtkorphan_ops.pm instead of a using
a hardcoded list. The rationale for this is that over the time
additional guess options were and will be added and maintaining this
list separately in gtkorphan is not ideal. Removing guess options would
be wrong and I don't think this will ever happen, so nothing will break
if you do not switch to using --print-guess-list.
Since i18n and glade is involved in generating the according menu, this
might not be that straightforward to implement. As you know,
--guess-section is actually a bit misleading; mapping this option to
"wrong section" in your menu was a very good choice. Such mappings
should not be lost if gtkorphan switches to using --print-guess-list.
deborphan in Squeeze and later contains some options intended to be used
by deborphan's frontends:
--print-guess-list (since version 1.7.28.2 or Squeeze)
This prints all available guess options, separated by newline
characters. On Squeeze, the output is:
common
data
debug
dev
doc
dummy
interpreters
kernel
mono
perl
pike
python
ruby
section
If this option is used by gtkorphan, there are three obvious ways
to ensure that deborphan is not passed an option it does not
understand. Adding a versioned dependency on deborphan is the
first one; checking if the option is available using below
described --check-options and waiting to switch to
--print-guess-list until Wheezy is released are the other two.
--check-options (since version 1.7.28.2 or Squeeze)
This option causes deborphan to exit after option parsing. The
exit status is zero if there was _no_ option parsing error and not
zero otherwise. The current implementation does not prevent
output on stderr, e.g., caused by getopt(). If the action
performed by a to be checked option is performed during option
parsing, as it is done for --print-guess-list, output on stdout
might happen and the remaining options might be ignored, i.e.,
only one option can be reliably checked by one deborphan
invocation. Thus the correct and supported way to check if the
installed deborphan has the option --print-guess-list is to run
"deborphan --check-options --print-guess-list >/dev/null 2>&1" and
to check if it exists with status 0 (available) or any other
status (not available).
A future implementation might include a more powerful
--check-options implementation, for example, one that never prints
anything to stdout or stderr if --check-options is the first
argument and that is able to check up to seven options at once by
setting the according bits in the exit status (2^7=128).
--show-arch, --no-show-arch
(both will be available in version 1.7.28.6 and later or in Wheezy)
Always/never print packages with architecture suffixes, for
example "apt:i386" instead of "apt". This applies to the output
in --check-deps mode and when printing orphaned packages. It does
not apply to keep related options. When not used, deborphan
chooses --show-arch on multiarch enabled systems and
--no-show-arch on other systems.
--all-packages-pristine (since version 1.7.28.2 or Squeeze)
Same as --all-packages, except that its output format will not
change in future (implying --show-sections will be all but sane if
sections will be replaced by debtags in Debian, so this
implication might be removed).
Regards
Carsten
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