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.SH NAME
.PP
challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]challenged\f[R] [options] \f[I]Packages file(s)\f[R]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
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.
.SH Input Specification
.PP
The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files
.SH Output Specification
.PP
The output of challenged is in the yaml format.
.SH Options
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]-b --broken\f[R]
.RS
.PP
Print the list of broken packages
.RE
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]-d --downgrade\f[R]
.RS
.PP
Check package downgrades
.RE
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]-c\f[R]
.RS
.PP
Print the list of packages in a cluster
.RE
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]--checkonly\f[R] \f[I]package\f[R][,\f[I]package\f[R]] ...
.RS
.PP
Specifies a list of packages to check.
By default all packages are checked.
Takes a comma-separated list of package names and a version .
.PP
Example: --checkonly \[dq]libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)\[dq]
.RE
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]-v\f[R]
.RS
.PP
Enable info / warnings / debug messages.
This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase
verbosity.
.RE
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]--progress\f[R]
.RS
.PP
Enable progress bars.
.RE
.IP \[bu] 2
\f[B]-h, --help\f[R]
.RS
.PP
Display this list of options.
.RE
.SH EXAMPLE
.IP
.nf
\f[C]
challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml
\f[R]
.fi
.SH NOTE
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
\f[B]distcheck\f[R](1)*\f[B]*\f[R]outdated*\f[I](1)\f[R]***
.PP
<<http://www.mancoosi.org>> is the home page of the Mancoosi project.