[debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 09/12/16 09:39, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 2016-12-09 10:33 GMT+02:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org>:
>>> We should also file against packages that depend on mysql-server,
>>> mysql-server-core, mysql-client etc.. How do you recommend to create
>>> such an list, using apt-cache rdepends on a recently updated sid box?
>>> Or should i log into some ftp machine and ask a list dak etc?
>>
>> Either of those is fine. There's also a lintian tag, see:
>>
>> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-obsolete-package.html
> 
> Yes, I know, I wrote that Lintian test :) There are also:
> 
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/build-depends-on-obsolete-package.html
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/ored-build-depends-on-obsolete-package.html
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/ored-depends-on-obsolete-package.html
> 
> But is there some command line wofoo to get the list of packages? I'd
> rather not write a manual html parser to extract the package names..

No idea. BTW there is grep-dctrl, which is way more powerful than apt-cache
rdepends.

Cheers,
Emilio