Dear Maintainer,

I am wondering, why deborphan is in bookworm, but not in trixie and not in forky. But it is in sid again.
Please note, that bookworm and sid got the same version got the same version, so I see no reason, why it should
not be in trixie, too.

In the past from time to time, I discovered other packages with the same behaviour as with deborphan: existent in
oldstable, gone in stable, but exitent in testing or unstable for no clear reasons.

Maybe you could enlighten me?

Best regards

Hans

* Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> [260826 11:31]:

deborphan does NOT exist in unstable.

Hope that clears it up.

Best,
Chris

This confused me too; sid is currently listed here:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=deborphan

...but note the details:

sid (unstable) (admin): program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries
1.7.35+b1 [debports]: riscv64

Apparently the only arch remaining is riscv64 debports:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/riscv64/deborphan/download?pow_referer=

I guess that got missed in the removal of deborphan from sid.


The rationale for removal is discussed here, along with some
potential alternatives:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065312

I have not tried any alternatives yet, so can't give a recommendation.