NAME

       debftbfs - list packages that have FTBFS bugs filed

DESCRIPTION

       usage: debftbfs [-h] [-d] [-v]

              [--distribution          {stable,testing,unstable,experimental}]          [--source
              {auto,udd-mirror.d.n,udd.d.o,bugs.d.o}]

       Query udd or bugs.debian.org for all source packages which currently have FTBFS bugs filed
       against  them for a given distribution (default: unstable) in "main".  If the psql utility
       is installed, the data will be queried from udd-mirror.debian.net. Otherwise it will  come
       from udd.debian.org. Querying the former is a bit faster but the data might be not 100% up
       to date. The result is a line-based list of source package names, their FTBFS bug and  the
       bug  title, separated by a space.  Only bugs tagged 'ftbfs' and with a severity greater or
       equal  to  'serious'  are  selected.   The  result  is  sorted  by  source  package  name,
       alphabetically ascending.

       The  three  available  data  sources  differ  in  how fast it is to retrieve the data, how
       up-to-date the data is and in the chosen heuristic to decide which ftbfs bugs affect which
       source   package   in   a   given   distribution.   The   fastest  two  data  sources  are
       udd-mirror.debian.net and udd.debian.org with the former being around 20% faster than  the
       latter  but  either  finish  in  under a second. The former will be more outdated than the
       latter though  at  is  is  only  a  mirror.   The  slowest  method  is  directly  querying
       bugs.debian.org  via its SOAP interface.  While querying bugs.debian.org will retrieve the
       most up-to-date information, the heuristics chosen to decide whether a source  package  is
       affected by an ftbfs bug slightly differs to the heuristic used by udd. Differences mostly
       occur for bugs that were re-assigned  to  different  source  packages  or  have  otherwise
       missing or incorrect metadata stored.

   options:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -d, --debug
              Enable output of debugging messages

       -v, --verbose
              Print verbose output

       --distribution {stable,testing,unstable,experimental}
              Pick the distribution affected by the FTBFS issue

       --source {auto,udd-mirror.d.n,udd.d.o,bugs.d.o}
              Choose   the   UDD   source   between   udd-mirror.debian.net,  udd.debian.org  and
              bugs.debian.org.