making deborphan obsolete?

[Lutzer]

DebFoster is deprecated in favor of aptitude. Please read my reply
according aptitude in the same thread.

Stephen R Laniel schrieb:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:25:01PM -0400, Chris Peterman wrote:
>> Maybe I was thinking DebFoster then? I always mix those up...
> 
> Ahhhh ... see 'apt-cache show debfoster' (below). It seems
> to do just what you say. Good to know; I didn't know about
> it.
> 
> 
> Package: debfoster
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> Installed-Size: 92
> Maintainer: Ivo Timmermans <ivo at debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2.5-4
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
> Recommends: apt
> Filename: pool/main/d/debfoster/debfoster_2.5-4_i386.deb
> Size: 33398
> MD5sum: 728b87acd366d256e296bdd1f4b6fad8
> Description: Install only wanted Debian packages
>  debfoster is a wrapper program for apt and dpkg.  When first run, it
>  will ask you which of the installed packages you want to keep
>  installed.
>  .
>  After that, it maintains a list of packages that you want to have
>  installed on your system.  It uses this list to detect packages that
>  have been installed only because other packages depended on them.  If
>  one of these dependencies changes, debfoster will take notice, and
>  ask if you want to remove the old package.
>  .
>  This helps you to maintain a clean Debian install, without old
>  (mainly library) packages lying around that aren't used any more.
> 
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