NAME

       which-pkg-broke-build - find which package might have broken another package's build

SYNOPSIS

       which-pkg-broke-build [.]
       which-pkg-broke-build <source-directory>
       which-pkg-broke-build <source-package>

DESCRIPTION

       The which-pkg-broke-build program will retrieve a list of all (recursive) build-dependencies of the named
       package sorted by the time they were installed on the system (as determined from the mtime information of
       /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list .

       This  tool  allows a package developer to obtain information that might correlate installation of package
       build-dependencies with a package build breakage in order to find which build-dependency update might  be
       responsible for the breakage.

PARAMETERS

       If  there's  a  parameter  and  it's an existing directory, which-pkg-broke-build assumes that this is an
       unpacked Debian source package and looks for its build-dependencies.

       If there's a parameter and it's not an existing directory,  which-pkg-broke-build  assumes  that  it's  a
       source package name and looks for that source package's build-dependencies.

       If  there's  no  parameter, which-pkg-broke-build assumes that the current directory contains an unpacked
       Debian source package and looks for its build-dependencies.

BUGS

       which-pkg-broke-build is horribly slow and inefficient as it calls which-pkg-broke once for each explicit
       build-dependency (and once  for  the  package  build-essential).  It  hence  checks  packages  which  are
       dependencies of multiple explicit build-dependencies also multiple times.

SEE ALSO

       which-pkg-broke(1)

AUTHOR

       which-pkg-broke-build was written by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

debian-goodies                                  December 11 2016                        which-pkg-broke-build(1)