Missing successor for obsolete packages

[Hans Ginzel]

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)

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Either the according package lists its successor(s) in the Depends field (then it's usually called "transitional package") or there is no (direct) successor at all. That can also happen.

Aptitude doesn't know more than the package (list) tells it.

Or do you have a different idea how Aptitude should list successor packages?

[Hans Ginzel (hans-matfyz)]

How does aptitude determinate that a package is obsolete or locally created, please?

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

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 How does aptitude determinate that a package is obsolete or locally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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