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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