On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:46:40 +0200 satanic.surfer....@web.de wrote:
Unfortunately the package got removed completely from Debian testing
leaving users without it behind (now for testing and later for the next
stable).

I agree, I knew deborphan had issues, but I haven't found an alternative.

2. Provide an alternative suggestion / migration to a tool having a
similar / same functionality
In bug #1065312 some people mentioned using something akin to:

apt list '~i !~M'

which is pretty much the same as:

apt-mark showmanual

However, `deborphan -a` doesn't show all manually installed packages, it shows the packages that aren't being depended on by other installed packages.

It'd be nice to have an `apt list` or `dpkg-query` incantation that can do this.

-- M

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