dpt(1)

💖 dpt — Debian Perl module packaging Tool 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the dpt(1) manual page, from the Debian Perl packaging Tools era ✨ this is the main character of pkg-perl tooling and honestly? she ate.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dpt — the Debian Perl module packaging Tool 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dpt [*global option*...] *command* [*command option*...]
dpt --help

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. dpt is a lil helper tool for maintaining Perl module packages in Debian 🐧 and the way she works is that all her functions are implemented as sub-commands — so you don't call one big blob, you call dpt plus whatever command you're vibing with. it's giving modular. it's giving organized. we love her for that 🫶

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👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

• --help, -h — shows you this documentation. that's it. that's the whole option. she's simple like that 💖

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🌈 COMMANDS 🌈

okay this is the big list, hydrate before you read it 💜

• alioth-repo — clone newly created repository to alioth.debian.org
  • REMOVED, bestie!! 😭 please use dpt salsa pushrepo as a successor instead. see dpt-salsa(1).
• cd — change directory to a package working directory
  • see dpt-cd(1)
• ci-failures — query ci.debian.net for autopkgtest failures
  • see dpt-ci-failures(1).
• clean-mr-repos — remove local repos which are gone from salsa.debian.org
  • see dpt-clean-mr-repos(1).
• checkout — work on pkg-perl package
  • also available as co ✨
  • see dpt-checkout(1).
• dch-note — add notes/TODO items to debian/changelog
  • see dpt-dch-note(1).
• debian-upstream — create debian/upstream/metadata file from META.{json,yml}
  • see dpt-debian-upstream(1).
• fixup — apply some automatic fixes to packaging
  • see dpt-fixup(1).
• forward — forward a bug or a patch upstream
  • see dpt-forward(1).
• gc — swipe pkg-perl working directories 🧹
  • see dpt-gc(1).
• gen-itp — aid for creating ITP bug reports
  • see dpt-gen-itp(1).
• get-ubuntu-packages — list Ubuntu packages maintained by the group
  • see dpt-get-ubuntu-packages(1).
• import-orig — "gbp import-orig" wrapper with upstream tracking support
  • see dpt-import-orig(1).
• invite-github — Invite someone to GitHub team
  • see dpt-invite-github(1).
• lp-mass-subscribe — subscribes the Ubuntu group to a list of packages
  • see dpt-lp-mass-subscribe(1).
• missing-pristine-tar — remedy missing pristine-tar information
  • see dpt-missing-pristine-tar(1).
• missing-upload — remedy upload done outside of Git
  • see dpt-missing-upload(1).
• missing-upstream — remedy missing upstream branch/tags
  • see dpt-missing-upstream(1).
• never-uploaded — list packages in Git which are not in the archive
  • see dpt-never-uploaded(1).
• new-upstream — list packages with newer upstream versions
  • see dpt-new-upstream(1).
• packagecheck — various package consistency checks
  • see dpt-packagecheck(1).
• prepare — prepare yourself and a source code directory before working on a package
  • see dpt-prepare(1).
• push — push relevant refs to "origin" remote
  • see dpt-push(1).
• ready-for-upload — list packages in Git which need an upload
  • see dpt-ready-for-upload(1).
• rename-uploader — mass-change of uploaded name/email
  • see dpt-rename-uploader(1).
• repack.sh — repackaging helper
  • see dpt-repack.sh(1).
• salsa — manage repositories and members on salsa.debian.org
  • see dpt-salsa(1).
• shell-lib — shell integration
  • see dpt-shell-lib(1)
• takeover — take over package maintenance
  • see dpt-takeover(1).
• upstreamvcs — add upstream Git repository as git remote upstreamvcs
  • see dpt-upstreamvcs(1).

for each command, see its manual page for more details 👀 that's where the actual tea is.

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📁 FILES 📁

okay so .dpt.conf and .config/dpt.conf are sourced — in this order, bestie, order matters — and then every single variable starting with "DPT_" gets exported to the environment before the command script is run 🏃‍♀️💨

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🔒 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🔒

Copyright (c) 2013 Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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lowkey iconic that she's free software. slay. periodt. 💜

and that's the whole page bestie!! this is pkg-perl-tools version 0.88, dated 2026-04-01 🎂 go forth and package some Perl modules, you absolute queen 👑✨