guess-upstream-metadata(1)

guess-upstream-metadata1

Guess upstream package metadata

Overview

guess-upstream-metadata [-h] [--trust] [--disable-net-access] [--check] [--consult-external-directory] [--version] [path] This tool tries to guess upstream metadata (Homepage, Contact, VCS Repository) information from a Debian package. It does this by parsing various files in the package, and possibly calling out to external services (unless --disable-net-access is specified).

positional arguments:

path

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--trust

Whether to allow running code from the package.

--disable-net-access

Do not probe external services.

--check

Check guessed metadata against external sources.

--consult-external-directory

Pull in external (not maintained by upstream) directory data

--version

show program's version number and exit

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

  1. 11–12

Authors

Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>

From python3-upstream-ontologist 0.1.35-1 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.