adequate - Debian package quality testing tool

adequate checks packages installed on the system and reports bugs and policy violations.

adequatecoreutils

              Check the coreutils package.

       adequate--tagsobsolete-conffile--all

              Check all the packages for obsolete conffiles.

       adequate--tags-py-file-not-bytecompiled,pyshared-file-not-bytecompiled--all

              Check all the packages, ignoring Python bytecompilation issues.

              0    if no tags were emitted or --fail was not set

              1    on invalid invocation

              2    if at least one tag was emitted and --fail was set

       adequate - Debian package quality testing tool

--all

              Run checks against all the installed packages.

       --tagstag1[,tag2...]

              Emit only these tags.

       --tags -tag1[,tag2...]

              Don't emit these tags.

       --debconf

              Report issues via debconf(7).

       --fail

              Exit with status 2 if at least one tag was emitted

       --rootdirectory

              Change the root directory (using chroot(2)).

       --useruser[:group]

              Switch  user  and  group  before  running any checks.  This is most useful together with --root or
              --pending which require superuser privileges.

       --apt-preinst

              Read  APT  configuration  and  .deb  filenames  from  stdin,  and   append   packages   names   to
              /var/lib/adequate/pending for later processing (see --pending).

              This  option  is  used  internally  by  the APT hook. The hook is disabled by default; please edit
              /apt/apt.conf.d/20adequate to enable it.

       --pending

              Run checks against packages listed in /var/lib/adequate/pending, then empty the file.

       --list-tags

              List all tag names and exit.

       --help

              Display help and exit.

       If you report a bug that was found by adequate, please use the following usertags:

              User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org

              Usertags: adequate tag-name

       Please keep in mind that adequate is not perfect; therefore false positives are  possible.  Don't  report
       the  bug  unless  you  understand  the  underlying  problem.   When  in  doubt,  please  ask  at  debian-qa@lists.debian.org first.

       Debian Policy: /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz or https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

       Python  Policy:   /usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz   or   https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/lintian(1), piuparts(1)

                                                                                                     ADEQUATE(1)

adequate [options] package-name...

       adequate [options] --all

       adequate [options] --apt-preinst

       adequate [options] --pending

       adequate --list-tags

       adequate --help

bin-or-sbin-binary-requires-usr-lib-library

              This package ships a binary in /bin or /sbin that requires a library in /usr/lib.  Obsolete as  of
              https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge

       broken-binfmt-detector

              The detector registered with update-binfmts(8) does not exist.

       broken-binfmt-interpreter

              The interpreter registered with update-binfmts(8) does not exist.

       broken-symlink

              This package ships a symlink which points to a non-existent file.

       incompatible-licenses

              Licenses  of  the  libraries  the  binary  is  linked to are incompatible. Obsolete as of adequate
              version 0.16.19

       invalid-dbus-user-or-group

              A D-Bus configuration file specifies an invalid user or group.

       invalid-systemd-user-or-group

              A systemd service unit script specifies an invalid user or group.

       invalid-sysvinit-user-or-group

              A sysvinit script specifies an invalid user or group.

       ldd-failure

              Running "ldd-r" on the file failed unexpectedly.  This is most likely a bug in libc  or  adequate
              itself.

              https://bugs.debian.org/710521

       library-not-found

              The binary is linked with a library, which cannot be found.

              Debian Policy §8.6

       missing-alternative

              This  package  is  a  provider of the virtual package x-terminal-emulator, but it doesn't register
              itself as an alternative for /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator; or it is  a  provider  of  the  virtual
              package  x-window-manager, but it doesn't register itself as an alternative for /usr/bin/x-window-manager.

              Debian Policy §11.8.3, Debian Policy §11.8.4

       missing-copyright-file

              The copyright file for this package is missing.  This often happens if /usr/share/doc// was a real
              directory in a previous version of the package, but  it's  now  a  symlink;  dpkg  never  replaces
              directory with a symlink to a directory.

              Debian Policy §12.5, §6.6

       missing-pkgconfig-dependency

              Dependency of a pkg-config (.pc) file shipped by this package couldn't be satisfied.

              Debian Policy §8.4

       missing-symbol-version-information

              The binary uses versioned symbols, but the library provides only unversioned ones.

       obsolete-conffile

              The  current  version  of this package no longer ships a conffile (that used to be included in the
              past).  However, the conffile hasn't been removed on upgrade.

              https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling, dpkg-maintscript-helper(1)

       program-name-collision

              This package ships a program with the same name as another program.

              Debian Policy §10.1

       py-file-not-bytecompiled

              This package ships Python modules that are not byte-compiled.

              Python Policy §2.6

       pyshared-file-not-bytecompiled

              This package ships Python modules in /usr/share/pyshared that are not byte-compiled.

              Python Policy §2.6, §1.5

       symbol-size-mismatch

              The symbol has changed size since the package was built.  It  might  be  an  indication  that  the
              library  broke ABI.  If ABI wasn't broken, and the library bumped shlibs (or symbols), the package
              should be binNMUed.

       undefined-symbol

              The symbol has not been found in the libraries linked with the binary.  Either the  binary  either
              needs  to  be  linked  with  an additional shared library, or the dependency on the shared library
              package that provides this symbol is too weak.

              Debian Policy §3.5, §8.6, §10.2