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
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-b --broken -
Print the list of broken packages
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-d --downgrade -
Check package downgrades
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-c -
Print the list of packages in a cluster
--checkonlypackage[,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)"
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-v -
Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
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--progress -
Enable progress bars.
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-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).