NAME

       dose-outdated - detect uninstallable packages due to obsolete dependencies

SYNOPSIS

       dose-outdated [option] ... file ...

DESCRIPTION

       dose-outdated identifies in a debian package repository those packages that are not
       installable with respect to that repository by the their inter-package relationships
       (dependencies, conflicts, ...), and that furthermore cannot become installable (in the
       current version) how matter how the rest of the repository evolves. This means that this
       package has to be updated in the repository to ever become installable again.

Input Specification

       Input files have to contain stanzas in the format of deb-control(5), separated by one
       blank line. For instance, the Packages files as found on a Debian mirror server, or in the
       directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ of a Debian system, are suitable as input. The repository
       used in the analysis consists of the union of all packages from the input files.

Output Specification

       The output of dose-outdated is in the YAML format.

OPTIONS

       -f --failure
               Print the list of broken packages

       -e --explain
               Explain the results in more detail.

       -s      Print a summary of broken packages.

       --dump  Dump to standard output in CUDF format the packages that are internally generated
               and exit (mostly useful for debugging purposes).

       --checkonly package[,package] ...
               Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked.

       -v      Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three
               times in order to increase verbosity.

       --progress
               Display progress bars.

       -h, --help
               Display this list of options.

EXAMPLE

        dose-outdated -f -v /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages

AUTHORS

       Pietro Abate and Ralf Treinen

SEE ALSO

       dose-distcheck(5) dose-challenged(5)

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

                                            2015-01-07                                OUTDATED(1)