DEB-WHY-REMOVED(1)

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✨ DEB-WHY-REMOVED ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to the deb-why-removed manual page, section 1 of the manual 💅 this is a Debian Utilities thing and it's gonna answer the most dramatic question in all of packaging: why did my fave package get yeeted out of the archive?? 😭

🌸 NAME 🌸

deb-why-removed — literally the tool that shows you the reason a package was removed from the archive 🕵️♀️💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

deb-why-removed [option...] package...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ok so here's the tea ☕ this program goes and downloads the removals metadata straight from the archive, then it searches through those entries and prints out whatever matches a source or binary package name. so you give it a name, it gives you the receipts 📜✨

no cap, that's the whole vibe. searching. matching. printing. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -u, --url URL — this is where you point it at the archive removals deb822-formatted file list 🌈 and the fun part is you've got options (pun intended): it can be an actual URL (https://, http://, file://), or a pathname, or an origin name. and rn the only origin name it knows about is debian. that's it, that's the list, periodt 💅
  • --no-refresh — do NOT refresh the cached removals file, even if there's a newer version sitting there in the archive. like, you're telling it "bestie I know, I don't care, use the old one" 🙈
  • -h, -?, --help — shows you a help message and then dips. no notes 👋
  • --version — shows you the program version. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶

💜 FILES 💜

  • cachedir/devscripts/deb-why-removed/ — this directory is where all the cached removal files live, aka the ones that got downloaded from the archive and are just chilling there 💾

and quick heads up about what cachedir actually means, because it's doing a little switcheroo: it's either $XDG_CACHE_HOME, or — if that's not defined — $HOME/.cache/. so yeah, one of those two, depending on your setup 🌸

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Debian Utilities, dated 2026-09-21, and honestly? she ate 💅💖 mwah, go find out why your package ghosted you 🎀

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