Ubuntu Manpage: adequate - Debian package quality testing tool

NAME

       adequate - Debian package quality testing tool

SYNOPSIS

       adequate [options] package-name...
       adequate [options] --all
       adequate [options] --apt-preinst
       adequate [options] --pending
       adequate --help

DESCRIPTION

       adequate checks packages installed on the system and reports bugs and policy violations.

OPTIONS

       --all
           Run checks against all the installed packages.

       --tags tag1[,tag2...]
           Emit only these tags.

       --tags -tag1[,tag2...]
           Don't emit these tags.

       --debconf
           Report issues via debconf(7).

       --root directory
           Change the root directory (using chroot(2)).

       --user user[:group]
           Switch user and group before running any checks.  This is most useful together with
           --root or --pending, which require superuser privileges.

       --apt-preinst
           Read APT configuration and .deb filenames from stdin, and append packages names to
           /var/lib/adequate/pending for later processing (see --pending).

           This option is used internally by the APT hook.  The hook is disabled by default;
           please edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20adequate to enable it.

       --pending
           Run checks against packages listed in /var/lib/adequate/pending, then empty the file.

       --help
           Display help and exit.

TAGS

       bin-or-sbin-binary-requires-usr-lib-library
           This package ships a binary in /bin or /sbin that requires a library in /usr/lib.
           This will make impossible to use this binary before /usr is mounted.

       broken-symlink
           This package ships a symlink which points to a non-existent file.

       incompatible-licenses
           Licenses of the libraries the binary is linked to are incompatible.

       library-not-found
           The binary is linked with a library, which cannot be found.

           References: Debian Policy §8.6.

       missing-alternative
           This package is a provider of the virtual package x-terminal-emulator, but it doesn't
           register itself as an alternative for /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator; or it is a
           provider of the virtual package x-window-manager, but it doesn't register itself as an
           alternative for /usr/bin/x-window-manager.

           References: Debian Policy §11.8.3, Debian Policy §11.8.4.

       missing-copyright-file
           The copyright file for this package is missing.  This often happens if
           /usr/share/doc/pkg/ was a real directory in a previous version of the package, but
           it's now a symlink; dpkg never replaces directory with a symlink to a directory.

           References: Debian Policy §12.5, §6.6.

       missing-symbol-version-information
           The binary uses versioned symbols, but the library provides only unversioned ones.

       obsolete-conffile
           The current version of this package no longer ships a conffile (that used to be
           included in the past).  However, the conffile hasn't been removed on upgrade.

           References: <http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling>, dpkg-maintscript-helper(1).

       program-name-collision
           This package ships a program with the same name as another program.

           References: Debian Policy §10.1.

       py-file-not-bytecompiled
           This package ships Python modules that are not byte-compiled.

           References: Python Policy §2.6.

       pyshared-file-not-bytecompiled
           This package ships Python modules in /usr/share/pyshared that are not byte-compiled.

           References: Python Policy §2.6, §1.5.

       symbol-size-mismatch
           The symbol has changed size since the package was built. It might be an indication
           that the library broke ABI.  If ABI wasn't broken, and the library bumped shlibs (or
           symbols), the package should be binNMUed.

       undefined-symbol
           The symbol has not been found in the libraries linked with the binary.  Either the
           binary either needs to be linked with an additional shared library, or the dependency
           on the shared library package that provides this symbol is too weak.

           References: Debian Policy §3.5, §8.6, §10.2.

EXAMPLES

       adequate coreutils
           Check the coreutils package.

       adequate --tags obsolete-conffiles --all
           Check all the packages for obsolete conffiles.

       adequate --tags -py-file-not-bytecompiled,pyshared-file-not-bytecompiled --all
           Check all the packages, ignoring Python bytecompilation issues.

REPORTING BUGS

       If you report a bug that was found by adequate, please use the following usertags:

           User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
           Usertags: adequate tag-name

       Please keep in mind that adequate is not perfect; therefore false positives are possible.
       Don't report the bug unless you understand the underlying problem.  When in doubt, please
       ask at debian-qa@lists.debian.org first.

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

TAGS

EXAMPLES

REPORTING BUGS

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