ltnu(1)

ltnu1

Lists packages of a maintainer ordered by last upload

Usage

env DEBEMAIL=maintainer ltnu [-m]

ltnu [-m] maintainer

ltnu --help

Overview

ltnu (Long Time No Upload) queries the public mirror of the Ultimate Debian Database (udd-mirror.debian.net) for all uploads of packages by the given uploader or maintainer and displays them ordered by the last upload of that package to Debian Unstable, oldest uploads first.

Its primary purpose is to check which of your own or your team's packages haven't been uploaded for a long time and likely need a packaging revamp. It's less suitable for MIA team purposes as it doesn't make a difference with regards to who actually uploaded a package.

Options

-m

Only search in the Maintainer field and ignore the Uploaders field.

Parameters

The maintainer/uploader to query can be given either by setting $DEBEMAIL as environment variable or as single commandline parameter.

If a commandline parameter does not contain an "@", "@debian.org" is appended, e.g. "ltnu abe" queries for "[email protected]".

Exceptions are some shortcuts for common, long e-mail addresses. So far implemented shortcuts:

pkg-gnustep

[email protected]

pkg-perl

[email protected]

pkg-zsh

[email protected]

qa

[email protected]

Environment

The following environment variables are honoured:

DEBEMAIL

Used for querying if no parameter is given.

PAGER

Used by psql as pager.

Examples

    $ ltnu pkg-zsh
             source          |     ver      |        uploaded
    -------------------------+--------------+------------------------
     zgen                    | 0~20150919-3 | 2016-08-24 04:55:31+00
     zplug                   | 2.4.1-1      | 2017-01-13 09:51:26+00
     zsh-syntax-highlighting | 0.6.0-1      | 2017-08-30 09:06:26+00
     zsh                     | 5.4.2-2      | 2017-11-02 20:56:55+00
    (4 rows)

Dependencies

ltnu uses the PostgreSQL client command psql and hence needs Debian's postgresql-client package to be installed.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13

From devscripts 2.25.15+deb13u1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.