diff --git a/misc/archive/depfeedback.sh b/misc/archive/depfeedback.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2847b2660
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/archive/depfeedback.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Given are builds without stage 9 in which broken packages
+# have been rebuilt unless all deps are resolved.
+#
+# This script is trying to resolve all cyclic deps causing
+# troubles in scripts/Check-Deps-2 by looking into the dep
+# files from the given builds and adding del entries to
+# scripts/dep_fixes.txt for those of the cyclic deps present
+# in scripts/dep_db.txt but not in the given builds deps.
+#
+# So you can do stuff like:
+#
+# while ./depfeedback.sh build/ref06* >> scripts/dep_fixes.txt; do true; done
+
+if [ "$1" = "merge" ]
+then
+	shift
+	perl -e '
+		my %deps;
+
+		while (<>) {
+			comp; next unless s/^(\S+)\s+del\s+//;
+			my $p = $1; @_ = split /\s+/;
+			$deps{$p}{$_} = 1 foreach (@_);
+		}
+
+		foreach (sort keys %deps) {
+			print "$_", length $_ < 8 ? "\t\t" : length $_ >= 16 ? " " : "\t";
+			print "del\t", join(" ", sort keys %{$deps{$_}}), "\n"
+		}
+	' "$@"
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$1" -o ! -d "$1/var/adm/dependencies" ]
+then
+	echo "Usage: $0 build/<ROCKCFGID> [ ... ] >> scripts/dep_fixes.txt"
+	echo "       $0 merge list1 list2 list3 ..."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+rm -f dependencies.dot dependencies.dbg
+rm -f dependencies.patch dependencies.done
+./scripts/Check-Deps-2 > /dev/null
+
+if [ -f dependencies.dot ]
+then
+	echo -n > dependencies.done
+	while read dep pkg; do
+		for x; do
+			if [ -f "$x/var/adm/logs/5-$pkg.log" -a \
+			     -f "$x/var/adm/dependencies/$pkg" ]
+			then
+				if ! grep -qx "$pkg: $dep" "$x/var/adm/dependencies/$pkg"; then
+					echo "$pkg del $dep" >> dependencies.done
+				fi
+			fi
+		done
+	done < dependencies.dbg
+
+	if [ -s dependencies.done ]
+	then
+		bash $0 merge dependencies.done
+		echo Found $(wc -l < dependencies.done) questionable deps. >&2
+	else
+		rm -f dependencies.dot dependencies.dbg
+		rm -f dependencies.patch dependencies.done
+		echo "No questionable deps found, still some cyclic deps left." >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+else
+	rm -f dependencies.dot dependencies.dbg
+	rm -f dependencies.patch dependencies.done
+	echo "No cyclic deps left." >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+rm -f dependencies.dot dependencies.dbg
+rm -f dependencies.patch dependencies.done
+exit 0
+
diff --git a/scripts/Check-Deps-2 b/scripts/Check-Deps-2
index 9887d64fb..25ce3e0b3 100755
--- a/scripts/Check-Deps-2
+++ b/scripts/Check-Deps-2
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ while (<F>) {
 	next if defined $pkg_redone{$p};
 	
 	foreach ( split /\s+/, $l ) {
-		next if $deldeps{$p}{$_};
+		next if defined $deldeps{$p}{$_};
 		push @{$dep{$p}}, $_;
 		push @{$rdp{$_}}, $p;
 	}
@@ -138,6 +138,15 @@ for $iteration (1..99) {
 	}
 	print F "}\n";
 	close F;
+
+	open(F, ">dependencies.dbg") || die $!;
+	foreach my $p (sort keys %crossdeps) {
+		foreach my $d (sort keys %{$crossdeps{$p}}) {
+			print F "$p $d\n";
+		}
+	}
+	close F;
+
 	last;
   }
   $lop{$looplog} = $iteration;