grep-excuses - search the testing excuses files for a specific maintainer
grep-excuses [
options] [
maintainer|
package]
grep-excuses downloads the autoremovals and update_excuses.html files and
greps them for the specified maintainer or package name. The
wget
package is required for this script. If no name is given on the command line,
first the environment variable
DEBFULLNAME is used if it is defined,
and failing that, the configuration variable described below is used.
-
--no-conf, --noconf
- Do not read any configuration files. This can only be used
as the first option given on the command-line.
-
--wipnity, -w
- Get information from
<https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php>. One or more package names must
be given when using this option.
- --help
- Show a brief usage message.
- --version
- Show version and copyright information.
- --autopkgtests
- Investigate and show autopkgtest (ci.debian.net) failures
in your packages but apparently caused by new versions of other packages
trying to migrate. (--no-autopkgtests can be used to override
GREP_EXCUSES_AUTOPKGTESTS.)
- --no-autoremovals
- Investigate and show only testing propagation excuses, not
autoremovals.
-
--experimental, -e
- Print pseudo-excuses for manual migration from experimental
to unstable.
- --debug
- Print debugging output to stderr (including url(s)
fetched).
The two configuration files
/etc/devscripts.conf and
~/.devscripts
are sourced in that order to set configuration variables. Command line options
can be used to override configuration file settings. Environment variable
settings are ignored for this purpose. The currently recognised variable is:
- GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER
- The default maintainer, email or package to grep for if
none is specified on the command line.
- GREP_EXCUSES_AUTOPKGTESTS
- Boolean: whether to show autopkgtest failures in other
packages. See --autopkgtests.
devscripts.conf(5)
Joey Hess <
[email protected]>; modifications by Julian Gilbey
<
[email protected]>.