>>>>> On 2008-03-11 06:52 PDT, Lucas Nussbaum writes:
Lucas> If you are only interested in a few packages, you could
Lucas> subscribe to them on the PTS. I recently worked on a
Lucas> script to notify PTS subscribers ('summary' keyword)
Lucas> when the package is orphaned or removed. (see
Lucas> #464021)
>>>>> On 2008-03-11 06:57 PDT, Andreas Bombe writes:
Andreas> It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all
Andreas> installed packages that aren't in any distribution
Andreas> included in sources.list under "Obsolete and Locally
Andreas> Created Packages". Verifying that this doesn't
Andreas> include any packages that I expect there (like
Andreas> locally compiled kernel module packages) is my way of
Andreas> checking for removed packages.
Good points, I also discovered Synaptic works well for manually
looking for removed packages. Notifying PTS subscribers by email
also sounds very useful. Still, I worry about the people who
don't know to check for removed packages - and aren't watching
the packages that happened to be removed.
Karl
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