CHALLENGED

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

−−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)"

−−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distcheck(1) outdated(1)

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