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

       -c      Print the list of packages in a cluster

       --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)"

       -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

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

NOTE

AUTHOR

       Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo

SEE ALSO

       distcheck(1) outdated(1)

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

                                            2023-09-11                         DOSE-CHALLENGED(1)