I use bower to view the dependencies on my bower.json below, so the question is, do I want bower to report dependencies with a newer version, but without installing it, for insatnce using npm-check-updates for npm give a good list of deprecated dependencies.
... "dependencies": { "angular": "1.3.0-beta.17", "angular-animate": "1.3.0-beta.17", "angular-mocks": "1.3.0-beta.17", "angular-resource": "1.3.0-beta.17", "angular-route": "1.3.0-beta.17", "angular-ui-select2": "~0.0.5", "underscore": "~1.x", "bootstrap": "~3.x", "components-font-awesome": "~4.x", "angular-bootstrap": "~0.11.0", "ng-grid": "~2.0.11", "AngularJS-Toaster": "~0.4.6", "intro.js": "~0.9.0", "angular-intro.js": "~1.1.1" }, ...
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