---
name: "botch-calcportsmetric"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "botch"
version: "0.24-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/botch-calcportsmetric"
---

# botch-calcportsmetric(1)

calculate source package importance

## NAME

botch-calcportsmetric - calculate source package importance

## SYNOPSIS

- **botch-calcportsmetric** \[options\] *strongsrcgraph.xml* *closuresrcgraph.xml*

  ## DESCRIPTION

Calculate a metric for source package importance based on how many source packages (minimum and maximum) become compilable in a bootstrapping scenario through the compilability of a given source package.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  show this help message and exit

- **--online**

  Retrieve popcon results for source packages

- **-v, --verbose**

  print additional information

## EXAMPLE

Calculate source package importance:

```
 zcat packages_amd64.gz | grep-dctrl -FArchitecture all > available
 botch-create_graph --deb-native-arch=amd64 --available=available --strongtype packages sources > strongbuildgraph.xml
 botch-buildgraph2srcgraph --deb-native-arch=amd64 strongbuildgraph.xml packages sources > strongsrcgraph.xml
 botch-create_graph --deb-native-arch=amd64 --available=available --closuretype packages sources > closurebuildgraph.xml
 botch-buildgraph2srcgraph --deb-native-arch=amd64 closurebuildgraph.xml packages sources > closuresrcgraph.xml
 botch-calcportsmetric --online strongsrcgraph.xml closuresrcgraph.xml > importance_metric_noall.txt
```

## BUGS

See \<http://bugs.debian.org/botch\>.

## SEE ALSO

Debian doc-base Manual */usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html*

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.