patchedit(1) 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 <[email protected]>.

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