grep-excuses
GREP-EXCUSES(1) General Commands Manual GREP-EXCUSES(1)
NAME
grep-excuses - search the testing excuses files for a specific main-
tainer
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 com-
mand 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>. A
package name must be given when using this option.
--help Show a brief usage message.
--version
Show version and copyright information.
--no-autoremovals
Investigate and show only testing propagation excuses, not
autoremovals.
--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. Environ-
ment 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.
SEE ALSO
devscripts.conf(5)
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; modifications by Julian Gilbey
<jdg@debian.org>.
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