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.
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; modifications by Julian Gilbey
<jdg@debian.org>.