NAME

dose-challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies


SYNOPSIS

dose-challenged [options] Packages file(s)


DESCRIPTION

dose-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 dose-challenged is a list of Debian Packages files


Output Specification

The output of dose-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

Select a subset of packages to check. By default all packages are checked.

-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

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


NOTE


AUTHOR

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo


SEE ALSO

dose-distcheck(1) dose-outdated(1)

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