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dpt-forward-patch(1) | Debian Perl packaging Tools | dpt-forward-patch(1) |
NAME¶
forward-patch - Forward a patch to CPAN's request trackerSYNOPSIS¶
forward-patch [option...] PATCH [DISTRIBUTION] Examples: $ forward-patch some-patch.patch Some-Dist # explicitly set dist name $ forward-patch some-patch.patch # make f-p read dist name from debian/control
CONFIGURATION¶
If the distribution name is not set from the command-line forward-patch will also look at the "Homepage" field in the "debian/control" file or the "Source" filed in "debian/copyright" and extracts the name from there. forward-patch will use by default the "DEBFULLNAME" and "DEBEMAIL" environment variables to retrieve information about the ticket author. If not set, getpwuid and the "EMAIL" environment variable will be used.OPTIONS¶
- --tracker tracker-name
- Instructs forward-patch to use the specified issue tracker. Supported values for tracker-name are:
- github
- Uses GitHub API to submit the patch as an issue. Requires proper "resources->repository" in META.
- cpan
- Submits the patch to <http://rt.cpan.org>.
The default is determined by the "resources.bugs" and
"resources.repository" values in META.
AUTHOR¶
Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo@debian.org>LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2014 Damyan Ivanov. Copyright 2011 Alessandro Ghedini. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.2014-09-01 | pkg-perl-tools 0.19 |