deb-janitor
DEB-JANITOR(1) General Commands Manual DEB-JANITOR(1)
NAME
deb-janitor - interact with the Debian Janitor service
SYNOPSIS
deb-janitor diff SOURCE SUITE
deb-janitor schedule SOURCE SUITE
DESCRIPTION
deb-janitor is a command-line client for the Debian Janitor service,
interacting with the API. It currently allows retrieving the diff for
specific packages or scheduling new runs.
SOURCE is the name of a source package.
SUITE is the name of one of the suites supported by the janitor. Common
values include lintian-fixes and multiarch-fixes. See the homepage for
a full list.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose
Output more information
--api-url
Override the API endpoint to communicate with, rather than using
the main Debian Janitor instance. E.g. --api-url=https://jani-
tor.kali.org/api/.
EXAMPLES
# Schedule a new run fixing lintian issues in the "dulwich" package:
$ deb-janitor schedule dulwich lintian-fixes
Scheduled. Estimated duration: 236.32s, queue position: 1 (wait time: 0.00)
# Retrieve the diff for fontmake
$ deb-janitor diff fontmake lintian-fixes
=== added file 'debian/upstream/metadata'
--- a/debian/upstream/metadata 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ b/debian/upstream/metadata 2020-11-28 11:58:34 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+Bug-Database: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues
+Bug-Submit: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/new
+Repository: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake.git
+Repository-Browse: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake
AUTHORS
deb-janitor and this manual page were written by Jelmer Vernooij
<jelmer@debian.org>
Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or
later.
SEE ALSO
lintian-brush(1)
DEBIAN Debian Utilities DEB-JANITOR(1)
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