bts-retitle(1)

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version 0.88 · 6 versions
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🌸 bts-retitle — a lil' bestie from the Debian Perl packaging Tools manual, section 1 ✨

👑 NAME

bts-retitle — the glow-up tool that lets you announce your intention to package a RFP or adopt a RFA 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS

bts-retitle bug-number ITP
bts-retitle bug-number ITA

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so picture this: there's a bug report in the Debian bug tracking system, and it's sitting there with an "RFP" or "RFA" prefix like it's wearing last season's outfit. bts-retitle is a tiny little wrapper around the bts(1) command whose whole job is swapping that prefix to "ITP" or "ITA" — easy, clean, one command, no cap. 💅

and bestie, that's not even all: bts-retitle also sets the owner of the bug report to the current user. but not in a sneaky way — it asks for confirmation first, because consent is iconic. 🫶

⚠️ CAVEATS

💌 Working local mail setup required

because bts-retitle rides on bts(1) under the hood, your local machine needs a working mail setup, and it needs to actually be able to send mails to the Debian bug tracking system. no mail, no retitle. that's the vibe check, fr fr. 😭

lowkey the whole thing runs on email, so pls make sure that's sorted before you come for the prefix 💀

📦 INVENTORY

the four acronyms, decoded, so you're never out here guessing:

  • RFP — Request for a package
  • RFA — Request for adoption of a package
  • ITP — Intent to package
  • ITA — Intent to adopt a package

Copyright 2010 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> Copyright 2013 Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>

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

and that's the whole page, bestie! 💜 this beauty ships as part of pkg-perl-tools 0.88, dated 2026-04-01 — go forth and retitle, you absolute main character. 🎀✨

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