NAME

       outdated - detect uninstallable packages due to obsolete dependencies

SYNOPSIS

       outdated [option] ... file ...

DESCRIPTION

       outdated identifies in a debian package repository those packages that are not installable
       with respect to that repository by the their inter-package relationships (dependencies,
       conflicts, ...), and that furthermore cannot become installable (in the current version)
       how matter how the rest of the repository evolves. This means that this package has to be
       updated in the repository to ever become installable again.

Input Specification

       Input files have to contain stanzas in the format of deb-control(5), separated by one
       blank line. For instance, the Packages files as found on a Debian mirror server, or in the
       directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ of a Debian system, are suitable as input. The repository
       used in the analysis consists of the union of all packages from the input files.

Output Specification

       The output of outdated is in the YAML format.

OPTIONS

       -f --failure
               Print the list of broken packages

       -e --explain
               Explain the results in more detail.

       -s      Print a summary of broken packages.

       --dump  Dump to standard output in CUDF format the packages that are internally generated
               and exit (mostly useful for debugging purposes).

       --checkonly package[,package] ...
               Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked.  Takes
               a comma-separated list of package names, each of them possibly with a version
               constraint, as argument.

               Example: --checkonly "libc6 , 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
               Display progress bars.

       -h, --help
               Display this list of options.

EXIT CODES

       Exit codes 0-63 indicate a normal termination of the program, codes 64-127 indicate
       abnormal termination of the program (such as parse errors, I/O errors).

EXAMPLE

        dose3-outdated -f -v /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages

AUTHORS

       Pietro Abate and Ralf Treinen

SEE ALSO

       distcheck(5) challenged(5)

       <http://www.mancoosi.org> is the home page of the Mancoosi project.

                                            2022-02-25                           DOSE-OUTDATED(1)