SYNOPSIS
patchedit [command] patchfileDESCRIPTION
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.
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- 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.