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Bug#37738: dpkg: there should be a way to list packages which depend on another package



Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.1

It would be incredibly wonderful to be able to, say `dpkg --depends libc5' to
see what packages installed depend on the libc5 package. As it stands, you have
to dpkg --remove or --purge and see if it produces error messages.



-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux Phaktory 2.2.5 #2 Sun Apr 25 16:31:13 PDT 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libncurses4     4.2-3.2        Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)


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