GOPHIAN-ESTIMATE(1)

💅 GOPHIAN-ESTIMATE(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay so bestie, pull up a chair, we're doing gophian-estimate — the part of gophian that looks at a Go package and is like "hmm, how much work is it gonna be to Debianize you??" 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gophian-estimate — Estimate work required to Debianize a given Go package 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gophian estimate <IMPORTPATH> [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this subcommand goes feral and recursively hunts down every single dependency of the package you hand it, then checks whether each one is packaged in Debian already. The output? A whole coloured tree, bestie. A tree that literally tells you which deps are already sitting pretty as packages and which ones are... not. 😭

By default, each colour means this, and you can absolutely change them — peep OPTIONS and ENVIRONMENT:

• No colour means the dependency is not packaged.
• Light green means the dependency is packaged in Debian.
• Dark green means it's packaged in Debian, but only available in experimental.
• Blue means the dependency is pending in the NEW queue.
• Gray means the dependency already appears elsewhere in the generated tree, which is there purely to avoid repetition. And if there's a version conflict between the version in the dependency's go.mod and the version packaged in Debian? That shows up in yellow.

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🍓 ARGUMENTS 🍓

• IMPORTPATH — The import path of the Go package being estimated. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --[no-]quiet — Don't print warnings. shhh 🤫
• --[no-]warn-packaged — Warn if the given Go package has already been packaged for Debian. (default: on)
• --[no-]include-packaged-deps — Include packaged dependencies in the estimate. (default: on)
• --[no-]include-version-conflicts — Include any version conflicts between the package's go.mod and the version in Debian unstable. Ignored if --no-include-packaged-deps is passed. (default: on)
• --max-depth <INT> — Maximum recursion depth of unpackaged dependencies. don't go too deep bestie 💀
• --packaged-unstable-color <COLOUR> — Colour to denote dependencies packaged in Debian unstable. Refer to COLOURS for accepted values. (default: bright_green)
• --packaged-experimental-color <COLOUR> — Colour to denote dependencies packaged in Debian experimental. Refer to COLOURS for accepted values. (default: green)
• --packaged-new-color <COLOUR> — Colour to denote dependencies pending in the Debian NEW queue. Refer to COLOURS for accepted values. (default: blue)
• --seen-color <COLOUR> — Colour to denote dependencies that already appear elsewhere in the output tree. Refer to COLOURS for accepted values. (default: bright_black)
• --unpackaged-color <COLOUR> — Colour to denote unpackaged dependencies. Refer to COLOURS for accepted values. (default: reset)
• --version-conflicts-color <COLOUR> — Colour to denote version conflicts. Refer to COLOURS for accepted values. (default: yellow)
• --help — Show help message and exit. 🫶

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

these env vars are literally the vibe-setters for your colours, no cap:

• GOPHIAN_PACKAGED_UNSTABLE_COLOR — Used for --packaged-unstable-color.
• GOPHIAN_PACKAGED_EXPERIMENTAL_COLOR — Used for --packaged-experimental-color.
• GOPHIAN_PACKAGED_NEW_COLOR — Used for --packaged-new-color.
• GOPHIAN_SEEN_COLOR — Used for --seen-color.
• GOPHIAN_UNPACKAGED_COLOR — Used for --unpackaged-color.
• GOPHIAN_VERSION_CONFLICTS_COLOR — Used for --version-conflicts-color.

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🧚 COLOURS 🧚

A colour value can be any of these three things, pick your fighter:

1. An ANSI colour name
2. An 8-bit colour (an integer between 0 and 255)
3. A 24-bit colour (a hex colour value that starts with a hash character e.g. "#d70a53") 💜

The supported ANSI colour names are:

• "black"
• "red"
• "green"
• "yellow"
• "blue"
• "magenta"
• "cyan"
• "white"
• "bright_black"
• "bright_red"
• "bright_green"
• "bright_yellow"
• "bright_blue"
• "bright_magenta"
• "bright_cyan"
• "bright_white"
• "reset" (No colour) — the "actually, no, I want nothing" option 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• gophian-estimate-graphviz(1)

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ok that's the whole page, go forth and estimate 💅

Version GOPHIAN-ESTIMATE(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual, dated 2025-12-25 — happy estimating bestie, you ate 🎀✨