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

# dpt-forward-patch(1)

Forward a patch to CPAN's request tracker

## NAME

forward-patch - Forward a patch to CPAN's request tracker

## SYNOPSIS

```
 forward-patch [option...] PATCH [DISTRIBUTION]
 Examples:
   $ forward-patch some-patch.patch Some-Dist # explicitly set dist name
   $ forward-patch some-patch.patch           # make f-p read dist name from debian/control
```

## CONFIGURATION

If the distribution name is not set from the command-line **forward-patch** 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.

**forward-patch** will use by default the `"DEBFULLNAME"` and `"DEBEMAIL"` environment variables to retrieve information about the ticket author. If not set, getpwuid and the `"EMAIL"` environment variable will be used.

## OPTIONS

- **--tracker** *tracker-name*

  Instructs **forward-patch** to use the specified issue tracker.

  Supported values for *tracker-name* are:

  - **github**

    Uses GitHub API to submit the patch as an issue. Requires proper `"resources->repository"` in *META*.

  - **cpan**

    Submits the patch to \<http://rt.cpan.org\>.

  The default is determined by the `"resources.bugs"` and `"resources.repository"` values in *META*.

## AUTHOR

Alessandro Ghedini \<ghedo@debian.org\>

## LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2014 Damyan Ivanov. 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.