dpt-new-upstream(1)

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version 0.88 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

dpt-new-upstream — literally just lists the packages that have a newer upstream version 👀✨

(also known as the dpt-new-upstream(1) manual page, hi bestie, welcome to the pkg-perl-tools corner of the internet 💖)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dpt new-upstream [--help|-h] [--man|-m] [--limit|-l PACKAGES_LIST_FILE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: dpt new-upstream goes and queries UDD's DMD for newer upstream versions, then takes what it found and compares it against your local git clones, sorts the packages it found into categories, and prints out tables, one per category. very demure, very organized 💅

and if this whole thing is giving you PET energy… yeah no you're right to assume that, there was definitely some inspiration taken from there. not even gonna pretend otherwise 🙈

decoding the acronyms, because we do not gatekeep here: - UDD: Ultimate Debian Database - DMD: Debian Maintainer Dashboard - PET: Package Entropy Tracker

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --help, -h — shows you this help. cute and quick 🫶
  • --man, -m — shows you the full manpage. the long version, for when you're in your research era 📖✨
  • --limit, -l PACKAGES_LIST_FILE — only outputs the intersection of the full result set and the set of packages found in PACKAGES_LIST_FILE. i.e. bestie, it filters the whole big list down to just the ones on your list 💖

PACKAGES_LIST_FILE has to be in the YAML format used by Tails build manifests, for example:

https://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_stable/lastSuccessful/archive/latest.build-manifest
⚠️ known issue, no cap: the current implementation assumes that every binary package on this list is built from an identically named source package. that assumption is just… there. be aware. 💀

💜 CONFIGURATION 💜

dpt new-upstream uses the DPT_PACKAGES environment variable.

See dpt-config(5) for the details, iykyk ✨

Copyright 2018-2025, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

Copyright 2019, intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>

Released under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. Artistic or GPL-1+.

that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 this was pkg-perl-tools version 0.88, dated 2026-04-01 — slay, go check your upstreams bestie 🌈💅

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