patchedit1
Edit headers of a patch according to dep3
Usage
patchedit [command]
patchfile
Overview
patchedit is a helper script for managing patch headers according to <http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/>.
Commands
- edit (default)
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Opens patchfile in EDITOR (or VISUAL or sensible-editor) and
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checks all headers
- •
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marks problems
- •
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adds missing required headers with proposals for their values
If no command is given, edit is chosen automatically.
- check
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Does a non-interactive check if the headers conform to DEP3. Prints the results (missing required headers, wrong values, ...) to stdout.
Arguments
- patchfile (required)
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The patch to work on.
Options
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Tries to fix problems in the headers when editing/checking patches. |
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Also add/print missing optional headers. |
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Help output. |
Environment
patchedit respects DEBEMAIL (or EMAIL) and DEBFULLNAME (for new Author or Reviewed-by headers).
Note
This script is not pkg-perl specific. It should go into devscripts eventually.
Todo
* preserve the extra fields* preserve the order of the fields
Copyright and license
Copyright 2010, Jozef Kutej <[email protected]>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Releases
6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 5 times.