DOSE-CHALLENGED(1)

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version 7.0.0 · 9 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

challenged — the girl who sniffs out broken packages caused by obsolete dependencies, no cap 🔍💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

challenged [options] Packages file(s)

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so bestie, challenged does a speculative analysis of your repo to find the packages that, if they got upgraded to a specific version, would absolutely wreck a huge number of other packages in that repo. It's giving "one girl walks in, whole party falls apart" energy 💀

When would you even need this? Say you're upgrading one specific component and you wanna evaluate its impact on the software archive before you commit to the chaos. That's literally the whole point. It's lowkey a vibe check for your upgrade. 🦋

📥 Input Specification

The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files.

📤 Output Specification

The output of challenged is in the yaml format. periodt. ✨

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -b, --broken — prints out the list of broken packages (the casualties, the fallen soldiers 😭)
  • -d, --downgrade — checks for package downgrades 🫶
  • -c — prints the list of packages in a cluster (yeah, just the short one, she's mysterious like that 💅)
  • --checkonly package[,package] ... — tells her exactly which packages to check instead of all of them. By default all packages are checked. You hand her a comma-separated list of package names and a version. 🙈

Example:

--checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)"
  • -v — enables info / warnings / debug messages. You can repeat this option up to three times to crank up the verbosity. One -v? cute. Three -v? she's telling you everything. 👑
  • --progress — enables progress bars. Yes bestie, we love a loading bar. ⭐
  • -h, --help — displays this list of options. (Hi, that's this list. You found it. 🎀)

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

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

💀 NOTE 💀

<nottag>Literally nothing here in the original, bestie — the NOTE section is just vibes and empty space. No notes. 😭</nottag>

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo — the icons who wrote her 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • distcheck(1)
  • outdated(1)

<http://www.mancoosi.org> is the home page of the Mancoosi project — go say hi, iykyk ✨

And that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 This lil masterpiece lives in the DOSE Tools manual set and this version is dated 2026-07-06. Go break some packages (responsibly) 💅🌸

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