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debftbfs - list packages that have FTBFS bugs filed

DESCRIPTION

usage: debftbfs [-h] [-d] [-v]

[--distribution {stable,testing,unstable,experimental}] [--source {auto,udd-mirror.d.n,udd.d.o,bugs.d.o}]

Query udd or bugs.debian.org for all source packages which currently have FTBFS bugs filed against them for a given distribution (default: unstable) in "main". If the psql utility is installed, the data will be queried from udd-mirror.debian.net. Otherwise it will come from udd.debian.org. Querying the former is a bit faster but the data might be not 100% up to date. The result is a line-based list of source package names, their FTBFS bug and the bug title, separated by a space. Only bugs tagged โ€™ftbfsโ€™ and with a severity greater or equal to โ€™seriousโ€™ are selected. The result is sorted by source package name, alphabetically ascending.

The three available data sources differ in how fast it is to retrieve the data, how up-to-date the data is and in the chosen heuristic to decide which ftbfs bugs affect which source package in a given distribution. The fastest two data sources are udd-mirror.debian.net and udd.debian.org with the former being around 20% faster than the latter but either finish in under a second. The former will be more outdated than the latter though at is is only a mirror. The slowest method is directly querying bugs.debian.org via its SOAP interface. While querying bugs.debian.org will retrieve the most up-to-date information, the heuristics chosen to decide whether a source package is affected by an ftbfs bug slightly differs to the heuristic used by udd. Differences mostly occur for bugs that were re-assigned to different source packages or have otherwise missing or incorrect metadata stored.

options:

-h , --help

show this help message and exit

-d , --debug

Enable output of debugging messages

-v , --verbose

Print verbose output

--distribution {stable,testing,unstable,experimental}

Pick the distribution affected by the FTBFS issue

--source {auto,udd-mirror.d.n,udd.d.o,bugs.d.o}

Choose the UDD source between udd-mirror.debian.net, udd.debian.org and bugs.debian.org.