Source: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/adequate.1.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 17:17:37+00:00

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adequate checks packages installed on the system and reports bugs and policy violations.
Run checks against all the installed packages.
Change the root directory (using chroot(2)).
--root or --pending, which require superuser privileges.
/var/lib/adequate/pending for later processing (see --pending).
please edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20adequate to enable it.
Run checks against packages listed in /var/lib/adequate/pending, then empty the file.
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.
This package ships a symlink which points to a non-existent file.
Licenses of the libraries the binary is linked to are incompatible.
The binary is linked with a library, which cannot be found.
References: Debian Policy §11.8.3, Debian Policy §11.8.4.
it's now a symlink; dpkg never replaces directory with a symlink to a directory.
References: Debian Policy §12.5, §6.6.
The binary uses versioned symbols, but the library provides only unversioned ones.
included in the past).  However, the conffile hasn't been removed on upgrade.
This package ships a program with the same name as another program.
This package ships Python modules that are not byte-compiled.
This package ships Python modules in /usr/share/pyshared that are not byte-compiled.
References: Python Policy §2.6, §1.5.
symbols), the package should be binNMUed.
on the shared library package that provides this symbol is too weak.
References: Debian Policy §3.5, §8.6, §10.2.
Check all the packages for obsolete conffiles.
Check all the packages, ignoring Python bytecompilation issues.
Please keep in mind that adequate is not perfect; therefore false positives are possible.

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