On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:06:31PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thursday 23 September 2004 06:11 pm, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > There is at least on possiblity to achieve this that I know of: > > aptitude lists all "obsolete" packages in an extra category. > > So one can just start aptitude and remove all packages listed there. > > (of course this only works if you have no sid deb lines in your > > sources.list and just exclude them by pinning or by specifying > > Default-Release). This is how I cleaned up my system after > > dist-upgrade woody->sarge. > > If you're using aptitude you also have the option of searching for something > like '!~Astable'. > > Daniel >
Both them need to be documented in the Release Notes IMHO. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
