bts-srcpkg(1)

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version 0.88 · 5 versions
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✨ bts-srcpkg — bestie edition ✨

okay so you know how bts-srcpkg is a whole Debian Perl packaging tool and it lives in section 1 of the manual and it will literally go ask bugs.debian.org about bugs for you?? yeah. that's the vibe. sit down, grab a snack 🍓, we're doing this together.

🌸 NAME 🌸

bts-srcpkg — it queries bugs.debian.org for bugs in a source package 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bts-srcpkg [-a] [-f] [-h] [-m] [-c] [-t] [source package name]

that's it. that's the whole dramatic entrance.

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So like, bts-srcpkg goes and queries the Debian BTS for bugs in a source package. That's its whole job and it does it flawlessly, no notes.

You can pass the source package name as a command line parameter if you're feeling like a main character. But by default? It just reads it from debian/control in the current directory. Lowkey genius.

And if you're already standing inside a Debian source directory, you can literally just type bts-srcpkg and boom 💥 — you get a list of the open bugs of the package you're working on. That's it. That's the magic. No arguments, no stress, periodt.

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • source package name — the name of the source package you want bugs for. By default, bestie, the name gets taken from debian/control in the current directory. She reads the room, she reads the file.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -a — Show all bugs of a source package. So this means also show done or archived bugs, not just the fresh ones. By default? Only open bugs. -a is you saying "give me the entire history, I'm nosy" 🙈
  • -f — Show all fields of a bug. Like, also show the less relevant fields. By default only bug_num, originator, subject, severity, forwarded, and tags are shown. Turn this on and it's giving ✨full transparency✨
  • -c — Disable colored output. No colorizing. She's going monochrome. By default output does use colors — unless STDOUT is not a tty, or the environment variables CLICOLOR or NO_COLOR are set to false or true, respectively.
  • -t — Disable title. This means don't output the title with the packagename. Might be convenient when called from another script. Very "I'm not here for decoration, I'm here for data" energy.
  • -h — Show this help. She's helpful, your honor 🫶
  • -m — Show full manpage. The whole thing. The extended cut. The director's version.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those too, iykyk 💜

Copyright 2011, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2026, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

This program is free software. You may distribute it under the same terms as Perl.

fr fr that's the whole page and it ate 💅 no cap.

and that's a wrap on pkg-perl-tools version 0.88, dated 2026-04-01 — go query some bugs bestie, you got this 💖✨🦋

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