upgrading from breezy to dapper and adept

[Francisco Borges]

» On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:24AM -0700, Matthew Kuiken wrote:

> > That is, for all of those perl modules, latex style files, etc. that I
> > have installed using adept it would be nice if I could tell adept to
> > install these in one go on top of dapper.  Even a file that listed all
> > of the additions I have made would be a start, I suppose...
> >
> Another option would be to install deborphan. This package will tell you
> all the packages that you have installed that are not dependencies of
> other packages. Any orphan packages that you want to use will need to be
> re-installed on Dapper.

The right option here, AFAIK, is to use aptitute instead of (deborphan +
apt-get). As it solves the problem that deborphan is supposed to solve
and lot's of other limitations of apt-get.

Check this for the advantages of aptitute over apt-get:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2004-04/3181.html

Cheers,
-- 
Francisco