One package list per Debian release
We need a list of packages to support for each Debian release that you are using. The best way to build this list is to gather the list of installed packages on all the Debian systems that you are running.
The dpkg-query command can be used for this:
$ dpkg-query -f'${db:Status-Status} ${source:Package},${Package},${Version}\n' -W | awk '! /^(not-installed|config-files)/ {print $2}'
You need to analyze separately your Debian systems based on the version of Debian that they are running.
Format of the package list
The package list must follow the same format as what’s produced by the
above dpkg-query command.
The result is a file with one line per binary package and 3 comma-separated fields on each line:
- the name of the source package
- the name of the binary package
- the version of the binary package
Combining lists from multiple systems
If you have Debian systems with different list of installed packages, you should run this command on each Debian system:
$ dpkg-query -f'${db:Status-Status} ${source:Package},${Package},${Version}\n' -W | awk '! /^(not-installed|config-files)/ {print $2}' >$(hostname).pkglist
This produces a hostname.pkglist file. Collect all those *.pkglist
files in the same location and then merge them with this command:
$ sort -u *.pkglist >final.pkglist
This final.pkglist file is the file that you should submit to Freexian
at sales@freexian.com. Feel free to drop packages from the generated list
to only keep those that truly matter to you.
Note that you should provide us one package list for each Debian release that you need support for. So only combine lists from systems running the same Debian release.