NAME

       grep-excuses - search the testing excuses files for a specific maintainer

SYNOPSIS

       grep-excuses [options] [maintainer|package]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       --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).

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       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.

SEE ALSO

       devscripts.conf(5)

AUTHOR

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

DEBIAN                                          Debian Utilities                                 GREP-EXCUSES(1)