apt-reverse
apt-reverse lists reverse dependencies for a given
Debian
package, ie. what packages depend on the given one, using the
AptPkg Perl interface
to the APT database. Other tools can give the same information, but
apt-reverse is simple and includes package descriptions to remind
you what the depending package is for.
Read more (only a little more) in the
online man page (5k, html).
apt-reverse is
free software (free
as in freedom), published under the terms of the
GNU
General Public License (v3 or up). Download version
5 here, chmod it to executable for
use:
apt-reverse
(7k, and
sig)
Here's some bash tab completions too, for use either standalone, or together with the bash completions project.
apt-reverse.bash (2k, and
sig)
Or for ease of install/remove as a .deb, and its source.
The sig files are Gnu PG ascii armoured signatures, generated from my key.apt-reverse_5-0.1_all.deb(9k, and sig)
apt-reverse-5.tar.gz(23k, and sig)