Finding Debian or Ubuntu packages no longer in the repositories

Cleaning up some systems and looking for packages that are no longer maintained.

apt-show-versions | grep 'No available version in archive'

I was amazed at some of the old packages on the systems, like libraries related to Gnome 2. This catches things that other methods like deborphan won’t.

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