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

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.