---
name: "dpt-new-upstream"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pkg-perl-tools"
version: "0.82"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dpt-new-upstream"
---

# dpt-new-upstream(1)

list packages with newer upstream versions

## NAME

dpt-new-upstream - list packages with newer upstream versions

## SYNOPSIS

**dpt new-upstream** *\[--help\|-h\]* *\[--man\|-m\]* *\[--limit\|-l PACKAGES\_LIST\_FILE\]*

## DESCRIPTION

**dpt new-upstream** queries UDD's DMD for newer upstream versions, compares the results to the local git clones, categorizes the found packages, and outputs tables by category. If this reminds you of PET -- you're not wrong to assume that there was some inspiration taken from there.

/\*

- UDD: Ultimate Debian Database

  - DMD: Debian Maintainer Dashboard

  - PET: Package Entropy Tracker

  \*/

## OPTIONS

- **--help\|-h**

  Show this help.

- **--man\|-m**

  Show full manpage.

- **--limit\|-l PACKAGES\_LIST\_FILE**

  Output the intersection of the full result set and of the set of packages found in `"PACKAGES_LIST_FILE"`.

  `"PACKAGES_LIST_FILE"` must be in YAML format used by Tails build manifests, for example:

  \<https://nightly.tails.boum.org/build\_Tails\_ISO\_stable/lastSuccessful/archive/latest.build-manifest\>

  Known issue: the current implementation assumes that every binary package on this list is built from an identically named source package.

## CONFIGURATION

**dpt new-upstream** uses the `"DPT_PACKAGES"` environment variable.

See [**dpt-config**(5)](/dpt-config/5.md) for details.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2018-2023, gregor herrmann \<gregoa@debian.org\>

Copyright 2019, intrigeri \<intrigeri@boum.org\>

Released under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. Artistic or GPL-1+.