DOSE-OUTDATED(1) DOSE Tools DOSE-OUTDATED(1)

outdated - detect uninstallable packages due to obsolete dependencies

outdated [option] ... file ...

outdated identifies in a debian package repository those packages that are not installable with respect to that repository by the their inter-package relationships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 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.

The output of outdated is in the YAML format.

Print the list of broken packages
Explain the results in more detail.
Print a summary of broken packages.
Dump to standard output in CUDF format the packages that are internally generated and exit (mostly useful for debugging purposes).
Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked. Takes a comma-separated list of package names, each of them possibly with a version constraint, as argument.

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

Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
Display progress bars.
Display this list of options.

Exit codes 0-63 indicate a normal termination of the program, codes 64-127 indicate abnormal termination of the program (such as parse errors, I/O errors).

 dose3-outdated -f -v /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages

Pietro Abate and Ralf Treinen

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2024-04-10