drt-tools(1)

👑 drt-tools — the Debian Release Tools, bestie edition

okay so real quick: this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and the command itself is drt-tools. It's a lil command with a whole gaggle of subcommands underneath it, and honestly? she's the main character of the release-tools cinematic universe 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

drt-tools [--force-download] [-f|--force] [-n ] [-v|--verbose]...
[-q|--quiet]... [--mirror] [--buildd] [-h|--help] <subcommands>

like, yes, that's a lot of brackets. breathe. it's fine. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

not me noticing the DESCRIPTION section is literally empty in the original 😭 it's giving "the vibes speak for themselves". Anyway — the options and the subcommands are where the actual tea is, so let's go 💖

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --force-download — forces the download of files. If you set this, every single file gets fetched fresh from mirrors, UDD, etc. no cozying up to your local cache, we're going out 🌈
• -f, --force — force processing. just... force it. ✨
• -n — only print the actions it would perform, without running any commands. this one is lowkey iconic because you can use it to produce a list of wb commands, copy that output over to the buildd server, and run it directly there 🔥
• -v, --verbose — increase logging verbosity. more words, more info, we love a chatty queen 👑
• -q, --quiet — decrease logging verbosity. shhh. 🤫
• --mirror <MIRROR> [default: https://deb.debian.org/debian] — the archive mirror. info on packages, sources and releases gets downloaded from this mirror 🦋
• --buildd <BUILDD> [default: wuiet.debian.org] — the buildd server. to schedule wanna-build actions, a SSH connection gets established to this server 🔌
• -h, --help — print help (see a summary with '-h') 🎀

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💜 SUBCOMMANDS 💜

• drt-tools-process-excuses(1) — processes the current excuses.yaml and prepares a list of binNMUs required for testing migration, plus a list of unblocks. she's doing the most and we respect it 💖
• drt-tools-nmu-transition(1) — prepare and schedule binNMUs for a transition 🌀
• drt-tools-nmu-buildinfo(1) — prepare binNMUs based on a list of buildinfo files 📄
• drt-tools-grep-excuses(1) — grep excuses for a list of packages and/or maintainers 🔍
• drt-tools-nmu-eso(1) — prepare binNMUs to rebuild for outdated Built-Using ♻️
• drt-tools-nmu-version-skew(1) — prepare rebuilds for version skew in Multi-Arch: same packages 👯
• drt-tools-nmu-list(1) — BinNMU a list of packages 📝

ngl bestie, each of these has its own manual page — go read them, they're all drt-tools-* and they ate fr fr 💅

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and that's the whole page, no cap. this was drt-tools, served up from the General Commands Manual — and yes, the footer is literally just drt-tools again with drt-tools(1), she's self-referential like that 🙈💜 stay slaying, go rebuild something 🧚✨