debian man page for reverse-depends

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NAME
       reverse-depends - List the reverse-dependencies (or build-dependencies) of a package

SYNOPSIS
       reverse-depends [options] package

DESCRIPTION
       List  reverse-dependencies  (or build-dependencies) of package.	If the package name is prefixed with src: then the reverse-dependencies of
       all the binary packages that the specified source package builds will be listed.

OPTIONS
       -r RELEASE, --release=RELEASE
	      Query dependencies in RELEASE.  Default: current development release.

       -R, --without-recommends
	      Only consider Depends relationships, not Recommends.

       -s, --with-suggests
	      Also consider Suggests relationships.

       -b, --build-depends
	      Query build dependencies.  Synonym for --arch=source.

       -a ARCH, --arch=ARCH
	      Query dependencies in ARCH.  Besides valid architecture names, the special values any and source may  be	used.	any  displays  all
	      reverse dependencies, the union across all architecture.	source displays build dependencies.  Default: any.

       -c COMPONENT, --component=COMPONENT
	      Only consider reverse-dependencies in COMPONENT. Can be specified multiple times.  Default: all components.

       -l, --list
	      Display a simple, machine-readable list.

       -u URL, --service-url=URL
	      Reverse Dependencies web-service URL.  Default: UbuntuWire's service at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/rdepends/.

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit

EXAMPLES
       All reverse dependencies of source package bash:

	      reverse-depends src:bash

AUTHORS
       reverse-depends and this manpage were written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the terms of the ISC License.

ubuntu-dev-tools						   November 2011						reverse-depends(1)