dpt-takeover(1)

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version 0.88 · 6 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

dpt-takeover — bestie, we're taking over a package for the Debian Perl Group 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dpt takeover -t top-directory [option...] package...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so dpt takeover? it's literally the whole glow-up ritual for adopting a package and getting its control files ready to be maintained by the Debian Perl group. main character energy from start to finish 👑

here's the order of operations, no skips:

  1. first, dpt takeover creates a local Git repository. either it clones from an existing Git repository that you specified with the -g option, or it imports all the package versions available on snapshot.debian.org via gbp-import-dscs(1). pick your fighter ✨
  2. next, it adds suitable entries to debian/changelog, using the info you gave it through the -m or the -a options.
  3. next, it runs:
dpt-packagecheck -a -A -C -c

to adjust the control fields. slay.

  1. finally, the resulting Git repository gets pushed to the Debian collaborative server, salsa.debian.org — unless you used the -n option, in which case it stays home 🏠

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -t top-directory — (mandatory, like, you cannot skip this one bestie) the location of the top level directory, the one containing packages/.
  • -m URL — the address of the message where the previous maintainer requests adoption. it gets included in the commit message and in debian/changelog.
conflict alert 💀 this one conflicts with -a.
  • -a number — the RFA/ITA bug number. a suitable Closes: #nnnnnn gets added to debian/changelog.
also a conflict, sorry 😭 this one conflicts with -m.
  • -g URL — URL of an existing Git repository to clone. if you don't pass it, gbp-import-dscs is used instead to prime the local Git repository from the package versions available on snapshot.debian.org.
  • -n — local operation only. the resulting Git repository is not pushed to salsa.debian.org. staying cozy, no uploading, periodt 🧚

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>

Copyright 2008, 2011, 2018 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>

Copyright 2008, 2009, Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org>

This program is free software and can be distributed under the same terms as Perl. 🫶

okay that's the whole page, and a little sign-off for the road: this was pkg-perl-tools version 0.88, dated 2026-04-01 💖 go take over that package, you've got this 👑🌈

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