setup graphical chooser : how to list orphaned packages ?

[Jérôme Bouat]

Hello.

I launched setup with the --delete-orphans option. Next the graphical chooser still show a package into the "obsolete" category after I unselected the "hide obsolete" check-box. This package was not marked for removal.

Therefore it seems that "--delete-orphans" option doesn't handle the same packages than the "obsolete" category.

Are "orphans" and "obsolete" 2 different things ?

Le 07/10/2017 à 09:50, Ken Brown a écrit :
>>> If a package is orphaned, then setup has no information about what category it was in when it was installed.
>>
>> Then maybe would it be more intuitive to select "orphaned" into the view/filter selector (top of the graphical chooser)
> 
> Orphaned packages are not important enough for that.
> 
>> instead of creating a virtual category which isn't actually a category ?
> 
> The category view is supposed to list all packages, arranged by category.  There has to be some place in that view to list the packages with unknown category.

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