deb-why-removed - shows the reason a package was removed from the
archive
deb-why-removed [option...] package...
This program will download the removals metadata from the archive,
search and print the entries within for a source or binary package name
match.
- -u, --url
URL
- URL to the archive removals deb822-formatted file list. This can be either
an actual URL (https://, http://, file://), an pathname or an origin name.
Currently the only origin name known is debian.
- --no-refresh
- Do not refresh the cached removals file even if there is a newer version
in the archive.
- -h, -?,
--help
- Show a help message and exit.
- --version
- Show the program version.
- cachedir/devscripts/deb-why-removed/
- This directory contains the cached removal files downloaded from the
archive. cachedir will be either
$XDG_CACHE_HOME or if that is
not defined
$HOME/.cache/.
<https://ftp-master.debian.org/#removed>