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dose-challenged(1)

dose-challenged1

Detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies

Overview

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.

Examples

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

Note

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)

--checkonly until Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Author

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo

From dose-extra 7.0.0-6+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.