dd-list1

Usage

Overview

dd-list produces nicely formatted lists of Debian (.deb) packages and their maintainers.

Input is a list of source or binary package names on the command line (or the standard input if --stdin is given). Output is a list of the following format, where package names are source packages by default:

J. Random Developer <[email protected]>
j-random-package
j-random-other

This is useful when you want, for example, to produce a list of packages that need to attention from their maintainers, e.g., to be rebuilt when a library version transition happens.

Options

-h, --help

Print brief help message.

-i, --stdin

Read package names from the standard input, instead of taking them from the command line. Package names are whitespace delimited.

-d, --dctrl

Read package list from standard input in the format of a Debian package control file. This includes the status file, or output of apt-cache. This is the fastest way to use dd-list, as it uses the maintainer information from the input instead of looking up the maintainer of each listed package.

If no Source: line is given, the Package: name is used for output, which might be a binary package name.

-z, --uncompress

Try to uncompress the --dctrl input before parsing. Supported compression formats are gz, bzip2 or xz.

-s, --sources Sources_file

Read package information from the specified Sources_files. This can be given multiple times. The files can be gz, bzip2 or xz compressed. If the filename does not end in .gz, .bz2 or .xz, then the -z option must be used.

If no Sources_files are specified, dd-list will ask apt-get for an appropriate set of sources (if apt is at version greater than 1.1.8), else any files matching /var/lib/apt/lists/*_source_Sources will be used.

-u, --uploaders

Also list developers who are named as uploaders of packages, not only the maintainers; this is the default behaviour, use --nouploaders to prevent it. Uploaders are indicated with "(U)" appended to the package name.

-nou, --nouploaders

Only list package Maintainers, do not list Uploaders.

-b, --print-binary

Use binary package names in the output instead of source package names (has no effect with --dctrl if the Package: line contains source package names).

-V, --version

Print the version.