SYNOPSIS

adequate [options] package-name...

adequate [options] --all

adequate [options] --apt-preinst

adequate [options] --pending

adequate --help

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

--all

Run checks against all the installed packages.

--tags tag1[,tag2...]

Emit only these tags.

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

Don't emit these tags.

--debconf

Report issues via debconf
(7).

--root directory

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

--user user[: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 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20adequate to enable it.

--pending

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

--help

Display help and exit.

TAGS

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

This package ships a binary in /bin or /sbin that requires a library in /usr/lib. This will make impossible to use this binary before /usr is mounted.

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.

ldd-failure

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

References: <https://bugs.debian.org/710521>.

library-not-found

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

References: 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
.

References: 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/pkg/ 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.

References: Debian Policy §12.5, §6.6.

missing-pkgconfig-dependency

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

References: 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.

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

program-name-collision

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

References: Debian Policy §10.1.

py-file-not-bytecompiled

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

References: Python Policy §2.6.

pyshared-file-not-bytecompiled

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

References: 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.

References: Debian Policy §3.5, §8.6, §10.2.

EXAMPLES

adequate coreutils

Check the coreutils package.

adequate --tags obsolete-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.

REPORTING BUGS

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

User: [email protected]

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 [email protected] first.