patchedit1

Usage

Overview

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

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checks all headers

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marks problems

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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 <[email protected]>.

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