NAME¶
dpt-forward - Forward a bug or a patch upstream
SYNOPSIS¶
dpt forward [option...] path/to/some.patch [bug-number]
dpt forward [option...] bug-number [path/to/some.patch]
OPTIONS¶
- --dist name
- -d name
- Distribution name. Determined from META, the "Homepage"
field in debian/control file or the "Source" field in
debian/copyright, in that order.
- --meta file
- Specifies the location of the META file. Defaults to
META.json or META.yml in the current directory, whichever is
found first.
- --mode bug|patch
- -m bug|patch
- Mode of operation. Should rarely be needed.
Determines the meaning of the arguments. bug means that the first
argument is a bug number, and the second argument is a patch file name.
patch means the opposite.
Determined from the first non-option argument and whether it looks like a
bug number or a patch file name.
- --offline-test
- All operations that require network are replaced with stubs, allowing for
off-line testing.
- --ticket number
- If present, the information is submitted to the ticket as an additional
comment.
If missing, a new ticket is created.
- --tracker name
- -t name
- Tracker used by the distribution. dpt forward currently supports
cpan (<http://rt.cpan.org>) and github. The default is
determined from the "resources->bugtracker->web" field of
META. If that field is not present, cpan is used.
- --tracker-url url
- -u url
- Tracker URL to submit the information to. Taken from the
"resources->bugtracker->web" field of META.
Defaults to "https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=
dist-name" for cpan and is mandatory for
github.
AUTHOR¶
- Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo@debian.org>.
- Damyan Ivanov <dmn@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.
