NAME

       dose-challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies

SYNOPSIS

       dose-challenged [options] Packages file(s)

DESCRIPTION

       dose-challenged  performs  a  speculative  analysis of the repository to identify those packages that, if
       upgraded to a specific version, would break a large number of other packages in the repository. This tool
       would be particularly useful during the upgrade of a specific component to evaluate  its  impact  on  the
       software archive.

Input Specification

       The input of dose-challenged is a list of Debian Packages files

Output Specification

       The output of dose-challenged is in the yaml format.

Options

       -b --broken
               Print the list of broken packages

       -d --downgrade
               Check package downgrades

       -c      Print the list of packages in a cluster

       --checkonly package[,package] ...
               Specifies  a  list  of  packages  to  check. By default all packages are checked.  Takes a comma-
               separated list of package names and a version .

               Example: --checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)"

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

       --progress
               Enable progress bars.

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

EXAMPLE

         dose-challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml

NOTE

AUTHOR

       Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo

SEE ALSO

       dose-distcheck(1) dose-outdated(1)

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

                                                   2016-01-03                                      CHALLENGED(1)