dpt-rename-uploader(1)

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version 0.88 · 6 versions
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💅 dpt-rename-uploader(1) — handle maintainer email changes

okay bestie, so you know how this lives in the dpt family, right? this is dpt-rename-uploader, section 1 of the manual, and it's here to do one thing and do it slayfully: swap out an old email address for a new one across your whole packaging world. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dpt rename-uploader full name old email new email
heads up! run this from the git/packages directory. not from your home dir, not from your downloads folder, from git/packages. it matters, bestie. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: dpt rename-uploader walks over all your package directories and switches out every occurrence of the author's old email in debian/control and debian/copyright with their new email. no cap, that's the whole job. 👑

it's giving... "glow up era". imagine an uploader just became a Debian Developer and wants to start using their me@debian.org address everywhere. iconic. this is the tool for exactly that moment. 💖

it also slides a suitable entry into debian/changelog for you — but nothing gets committed. it just stages the vibe, you do the committing yourself, main character. 💅

warning!! repositories with uncommitted changes get left completely alone — not touched, not looked at, nada — and it throws a warning at you. so commit your stuff first or you're getting nothing. 😭

copyright belongs to all these lovely humans:

  • 2009, Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org>
  • 2010, 2012, 2014 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
  • 2011, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
  • 2012, Nathan Handler <nhandler@ubuntu.com>

license: Artistic or GPL-1+ 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil guy shipped as part of pkg-perl-tools version 0.88, dated 2026-04-01. go forth and rename your uploader. periodt. 💜🌺🧚

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