deb-scrub-obsolete(1)

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version 0.162 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

🎀 NAME 🎀

ok so deb-scrub-obsolete — it scrubs a Debian package clean of all the configuration that's just... not necessary anymore 💅 like a glow-up but for your packaging.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

deb-scrub-obsolete [-h] [--no-update-changelog] [--version]
[--upgrade-release=RELEASE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie. Listen. This thing takes your Debian source package and scrubs out all the versioned depends, conflicts and maintscripts that literally nobody needs anymore. It's giving spring cleaning 🧹✨

Specifically, it makes these categories of changes:

  • obsolete maintscript entries for upgrades from versions older than the one in $compat_release 🗑️
  • depends on packages that are essential since $compat_release
  • build-depends on packages that are build-essential since $compat_release
  • replacing dependencies on "transitional dummy packages" with the real thing (as long as it's satisfiable since $compat_release) 🔁
  • conflicts with packages that have been gone since before $compat_release 💀
  • version constraints in build-depends or depends that are already met by the package in $compat_release

💜 optional arguments 💜

  • -h, --help — shows this help message and dips. bye 👋
  • --no-update-changelog — whether to update the changelog. yes that's the description, I'm just the messenger 🫶
  • --version — shows the program's version number and exits 🏷️
  • --upgrade-release=RELEASE — don't remove any constraints that are necessary for upgrading from RELEASE or newer releases. this can be a codename ("bookworm") or an alias ("unstable", "old-old-stable"). for the full list of options, see distro-info(1) 📋
  • --compat-release=RELEASE — don't remove any constraints that are necessary for building on RELEASE or newer releases. also a codename ("bookworm") or an alias ("unstable", "old-old-stable"). full list of options lives in distro-info(1) too 🌸
  • --identity — prints the identity (name and e-mail address) that apply-multiarch-hints will use when committing changes, then exits. iconic little flex 👑
  • --debug — prints debugging information 🐛
  • --keep-minimum-depends-versions — keeps minimum version dependencies, even when they're unnecessary. hoarder energy, we respect it 💖

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DEB_UPDATE_CHANGELOG — controls whether the changelog should be updated, depending on whether it's set to "leave", "update" or "auto". the --update-changelog and --no-update-changelog arguments override this. no cap ⚡

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

lintian-brush.conf(5) lintian-brush(1)

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> 🫶

ok that's the whole vibe check, go forth and scrub, bestie 🧚‍♀️

this was deb-scrub-obsolete version 0.1, dated September 2020 — manual page deb-scrub-obsolete(1), and yes she ate 💅✨

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