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

# patchedit(1)

Edit headers of a patch according to DEP3

## NAME

patchedit - Edit headers of a patch according to DEP3

## SYNOPSIS

**patchedit** \[*command*\] *patchfile*

## DESCRIPTION

**patchedit** is a helper script for managing patch headers according to \<http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/\>.

## COMMANDS

- *edit* (default)

  Opens *patchfile* in EDITOR (or VISUAL or sensible-editor) and

  - •

    checks all headers

  - •

    marks problems

  - •

    adds missing required headers with proposals for their values

  If no command is given, *edit* is chosen automatically.

- *check*

  Does a non-interactive check if the headers conform to DEP3. Prints the results (missing required headers, wrong values, ...) to stdout.

## ARGUMENTS

- *patchfile* (required)

  The patch to work on.

## OPTIONS

- **-f\|--fix**

  Tries to fix problems in the headers when editing/checking patches.

- **-o\|--optional**

  Also add/print missing optional headers.

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

  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 \<jkutej@cpan.org\>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.