dpt-ci-failures(1)

✨ dpt-ci-failures — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, so dpt-ci-failures is a thing in the dpt family (that's the Debian Perl packaging Tools, hey hey 💅) and what it does is… it goes and yells at ci.debian.net for you and comes back with all the autopkgtest failures. no cap. you want to know what's broken? she'll tell you what's broken. 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dpt-ci-failures — query ci.debian.net for autopkgtest failures 💀✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dpt ci-failures [-d <distribution>] [-A <architecture>] [-anbhmI]

look at her. one command. so many little flags. iconic honestly.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -d <distribution> — which distribution you're asking about. defaults to unstable, because obviously. 💜
• -A <architecture> — which architecture you want. defaults to amd64, the people's arch fr fr.
• -a — show more ("all") results. heads up bestie, this one is slow 🐌. by default she only shows you packages matching /perl/ and only the latest versions. -a = the whole buffet.
• -b — bonus round: also show RC bugs for the packages she found. two-for-one diagnosis, we love that. 🍓
• -I — also show the run id for the last run. this is the one you want for retrying a test via the ci.debian.net API ✨ (iykyk)
• -h — show this help. the classic. the queen. 👑
• -m — show the full manpage. yes, the whole thing. she'll dump it all for you.

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⚙️ CONFIGURATION ⚙️

None. literally nothing to configure. she just works. 🧚

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🗂️ FILES 🗂️

a file named ci.debian.net-packages-$dist-$arch.json gets stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/pkg-perl-tools or $HOME/.cache/pkg-perl-tools. that's her lil cache spot 🫶

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2017-2018, Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
          2017-2024, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

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

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reminder: this page is dpt-ci-failures(1) from pkg-perl-tools version 0.88, dated 2026-04-01. 💖

and that's the page bestie!! go query those failures, slay, periodt ✨🌸💅