[Deborphan-devel] Bug#703609: deborphan: please clarify the documentation (man page) about libs/oldlibs
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Mar 21 10:54:38 UTC 2013
Package: deborphan
Version: 1.7.28.8
Severity: normal
The deborphan man page says:
DESCRIPTION
deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them.
The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs
sections to hunt down unused libraries.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
One has the impression that these packages just contain libraries
(and associated documentation files, but nothing else that would
affect the behavior of a running system). This is usually the case,
but some packages in these sections may also contain executables
(which the user or a 3rd-party application may use), so that it
may not be safe to remove them. So, this is a bit confusing.
The man page should say something like: Such packages may also
contain executables or plugins, not just libraries; the user
should check their contents before removing them.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages deborphan depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38
Versions of packages deborphan recommends:
ii apt 0.9.7.8
ii dialog 1.1-20120215-3
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-10
deborphan suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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