New armhf leaf package reports

Julian Andres Klode julian.klode at canonical.com
Thu Mar 21 19:13:06 UTC 2024


On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 07:20:45PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wrote a new script:
> 
>     https://magenta.jak-linux.org/ubuntu-archive/distcheck/noble.armhf/removal-candidates.py
> 
> This is some basic apt shenanigans to walk the (build) dependencies and
> then check which packages have no reverse depends and list them. It does
> this iteratively, so it removes all leaf packages, and then it finds
> more packages, so hence you get iterative levels.

The reports now tell you for new leaf packages in level i > 0 which
reverse depends were removed in the previous level in a comment.

This may be useful to some.
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