Botch is a collection of tools to create and analyze dependency graphs. This task is facilitated by a range of individual tools which use the deb822 and graphml formats to exchange information with each other.

The tools installed by this package provide these features:

- analyze graphs - transform Packages and Sources control files - create graphs of different types - analysis of Packages and Sources control files - handling of botch-internal formats - dose3 wrappers - set operations on Packages or Sources files - create build orders - conversion of graphs - shell scripts connecting the tools for meaningful operations - extract regions from graphs