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patchedit - Edit headers of a patch according to DEP3

patchedit [ command ] patchfile

patchedit is a helper script for managing patch headers according to <http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/>.

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.

patchfile (required)

The patch to work on.

-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.

patchedit respects DEBEMAIL (or EMAIL) and DEBFULLNAME (for new Author or Reviewed-by headers).

This script is not pkg-perl specific. It should go into devscripts eventually.

* preserve the extra fields
* preserve the order of the fields

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