I did some searching, but was unable to find any equivalent to deborphan for maemo. Is there anything out there for the orphaned libraries/packages that seem to hang around after stuff is uninstalled?
I can't imagine it would be that tough to compile it for maemo/amtel.

I just realized I probably should have posted this in th developers section.. sorry.

I tried to give it a quick build in mud-builder but it looks like it has quite a few dependencies. One of the dependencies, po4a, failed to apply patches. You might be able to get it to build with some minor tweaking...

-John

I wonder if there is a similar tool with less depends. thanks for giving it a shot though. I did figure out a way to purge old config stuff with dpkg that works well. I doesn't help at all with orphaned packages.

# dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')

works well for cleaning out all the left over configs, and is faster than doing a --purge 1 package at a time.