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From: Tech Geek on 29 Jan 2010 19:00
So I have been using my current Debian instalaltion for almost a year now
and over this time I have installed, purged and deinstalled a lot of
packages. It seems that the status file maintains a list of all the packages
and their current states that have been ever installed on the system since
the fresh installation.

For example:
debian:/var/lib/dpkg# cat status | grep custom
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-custom-test1
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-custom-test2
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-custom-test1
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-custom-test2

The above packages are no longer installed on my system (since last 6
months) but the dpkg library (status file) stilll keeps track of them.

So my question is:
Is there any way by which I can regenerate a fresh "/var/lib/dpkg/status"
file for all the packages that are currently installed on my systems?
Nothing is wrong on my system as such but space is premium for me (even 1 MB
matters) as I am using a compact flash of a relatively small size (approx.
512 MB). Another reason is that I am just curios to find out how to
regenerate it if one has to.

Thanks
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