A command-line option to limit recursivity to a certain level would be
very handy. Something like --levels=xx.

Thus apt-rdepends -r --levels=1 foo would only give the packages that
directly depend on foo.

I would like to second this wish.

This is useful to find out if a package is still referenced without reading
thousands of lines if it is far up the dependency chain.

Is apt-rdepends orphaned? The last maintainer upload was more than two years
ago.

Josef

In fact, having just a single level as default would be good. The
reason is that although this is the same (it seems?) as apt-cache
depends, apt-rdepends can also do build-deps, which apt-cache can't (?
at least, I can't see any mention of it in the man page).

I have an ulterior motive here: I would like to see this fixed and
also reverse build-deps, and then have apt-rdepends supported by wajig
for easy and powerful dependency finding.