---
name: "dpt-forward-bug"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pkg-perl-tools"
version: "0.19"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dpt-forward-bug"
---

# dpt-forward-bug(1)

Forward Debian bug to CPAN's request tracker

## NAME

forward-bug - Forward Debian bug to CPAN's request tracker

## SYNOPSIS

```
 forward-bug BUGNUMBER [DISTRIBUTION]
 Examples:
   $ forward-bug 555555 Some-Dist # explicitly set dist name
   $ forward-bug 32412314         # make f-b read dist name from debian/control
```

## CONFIGURATION

**forward-bug.pl** read the file `"~/.pause"` for the configuration. The format is the same that cpan-upload requires:

```
  user YOUR-PAUSE-ID
  password YOUR-PAUSE-PASSWORD
```

If the distribution name is not set from the command-line **forward-bug** will also look at the `"Homepage"` field in the `"debian/control"` file or the `"Source"` filed in `"debian/copyright"` and extracts the name from there.

## AUTHOR

Alessandro Ghedini \<ghedo@debian.org\>

## LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011 Alessandro Ghedini.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.