[Bug 1569168] Re: Missing successor for obsolete packages

[Axel Beckert]

Hans Ginzel wrote:
> How does aptitude determinate that a package is obsolete or locally
> created, please?

Citing from
http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html#searchObsolete

  ... any installed package which is not available in any version from
  any archive. These packages appear as “Obsolete or Locally
  Installed” in the visual interface.

		Regards, Axel
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Title:
  Missing successor for obsolete packages

Status in aptitude package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There is category “Obsolete and Locally Created Packages” in aptitude.
  But the information which package replaces an obsolete one is missing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: aptitude 0.6.8.2-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-85.129-generic 3.13.11-ckt36
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-85-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.20
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Apr 12 07:21:51 2016
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-21 (568 days ago)

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