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

# botch-y-u-b-d-transitive-essential(1)

Find out why source packages are B-D transitive essential.

## NAME

botch-y-u-b-d-transitive-essential - Find out why source packages are B-D transitive essential.

## SYNOPSIS

- **botch-y-u-b-d-transitive-essential** \[options\] *architecture* *Packages* *Sources* \[pkgname\]

  ## DESCRIPTION

Find the reasons why source packages are B-D transitive essential. Assumes that Architecture:all packages need not be bootstrapped. Operates on the strong dependency graph.

An optional package name as the last argument limits the output to that package.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Display help.

- **-k, --keep**

  Keep the temporary files

- **-T, --timers**

  time all program executions

- **-o, --output=***DIR*

  Output directory. Default is the current directory

- **-t, --tmp=***DIR*

  Temporary directory. Default is created by [**mktemp**(1)](/mktemp/1.md)

- **-v, --verbose**

  Be more verbose

- **-d, --debug**

  Maximum verbosity

- **-D, --develop**

  Execute tools from the source checkout instead of `$PATH`

## EXAMPLE

To find out why src:sysvinit is b-d-transitive-essential, run:

```
 botch-y-u-b-d-transitive-essential amd64 Packages Sources sysvinit
```

Edges from installation sets to source packages (builds-from relationships) can be hard to diagnose. You can use dose-ceve to create a graph that doesn't condense binary packages to their installation sets. This has the disadvantage that also non-strong dependencies are also included.

```
 dose-ceve -G pkg -T dot --deb-native-arch=amd64 --deb-builds-from --deb-drop-b-d-indep deb://Packages debsrc://Sources > graph.dot
 botch-graph-shortest-path graph.dot - --source __ID__:"src:build-essential (= 12.2)" --target __ID__:"src:sysvinit (= 2.88dsf-59.8)" > out.dot
 xdot out.dot
```

## 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.