Dan Jacobson schrieb:
> Package: apt-show-versions
> Version: 0.10
> Severity: normal
> 
> $ apt-show-versions -v mime-codecs
> mime-codecs 7.19-7 newer than version in archive
> 
> No it is not. It is gone from the archive.
> $ apt-cache policy mime-codecs
> only shows
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> Anyway, please distinguish the cases of gone from the archive (no
> longer in sid), and dpkg-repack packages too.
> 
> I want a "vrms" like command line for anacron that will send me a list
> of Obsolete and Locally Created Package by mail each month and
> distinguish the ones made by dpkg-repack and the ones that silently
> disappeared from sid.
> I don't want to use a GUI like synaptic or the scary to me aptitude
> GUI.
> OK, maybe I will try
>   apt-show-versions|sort >/tmp/apt-show-versions
>   for i in /unknown 'newer than version in archive' \
>   'No available version in archive'; do echo; echo ======$i;\
>   fgrep "$i" /tmp/apt-show-versions; done
> 

How do you distinguish between those packages? Both have no version in
the archives. Since apt-show-versions holds no history, it can't decide
if it was build with dpkg-repack or not.

Christoph

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