---
name: "dose-challenged"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "dose-extra"
version: "7.0.0-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dose-challenged"
---

# dose-challenged(1)

detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies

## NAME

challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies

## SYNOPSIS

- **challenged** \[options\] *Packages file(s)*

  ## DESCRIPTION

challenged performs a speculative analysis of the repository to identify those packages that, if upgraded to a specific version, would break a large number of other packages in the repository. This tool would be particularly useful during the upgrade of a specific component to evaluate its impact on the software archive.

## Input Specification

The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files

## Output Specification

The output of challenged is in the yaml format.

## Options

- **-b --broken**

  Print the list of broken packages

- **-d --downgrade**

  Check package downgrades

- **-c**

  Print the list of packages in a cluster

- **--checkonly** *package*\[,*package*\] ...

  Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked. Takes a comma-separated list of package names and a version .

  Example: --checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)"

- **-v**

  Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.

- **--progress**

  Enable progress bars.

- **-h, --help**

  Display this list of options.

## EXAMPLE

```
  challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml
```

## NOTE

## AUTHOR

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo

## SEE ALSO

**distcheck**(1) **outdated**(1)

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