• Bug#1107933: release-notes: document deborphan removal and replacement

    From Chris Hofstaedtler@21:1/5 to Andres Salomon on Sat Jul 19 02:20:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.doc

    Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/284

    On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 01:19:46PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
    Package: release-notes
    X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

    As mentioned in <https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/240>, we removed references to deborphan in the release notes; however, we should mention that it was removed and also list alternatives. I lack the free time to document alternatives, which is why I haven't done this yet. However, a LOT of people (myself included) used the deborphan for decades after every major Debian upgrade, so it's going to come up when trixie is released.

    In MR 284 I've now documented the deborphan removal. It also notes
    to use apt-mark minimize-manual and then apt autoremove.

    Improvements welcome in the MR.

    Chris

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  • From Chris Hofstaedtler@21:1/5 to Chris Hofstaedtler on Sun Jul 20 11:10:02 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.doc

    On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 02:09:36AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
    Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/284

    In MR 284 I've now documented the deborphan removal. It also notes
    to use apt-mark minimize-manual and then apt autoremove.

    Merged.

    Chris

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