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

           •   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 <jkutej@cpan.org>.

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

pkg-perl-tools 0.82                                2025-02-28                                       patchedit(1)