dose-challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies
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.
The input of dose-challenged is a list of Debian Packages files
The output of dose-challenged is in the yaml format.
Print the list of broken packages
Check package downgrades
Print the list of packages in a cluster
Select a subset of packages to check. By default all packages are checked.
Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
Enable progress bars.
Display this list of options.
dose-challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml
Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo
dose-distcheck(1) dose-outdated(1)
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