GUESS-UPSTREAM-METADATA(1)

📦 version 0.1.35, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ GUESS-UPSTREAM-METADATA ✨

okay bestie, listen up — this is the manual page for guess-upstream-metadata, a lil user command that is genuinely so useful and we're gonna get into it 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

guess-upstream-metadata — guess upstream package metadata

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

guess-upstream-metadata [-h] [--trust] [--disable-net-access] [--check]
                        [--consult-external-directory] [--version] [path]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this tool literally tries to guess your upstream metadata — think Homepage, Contact, VCS Repository — pulling it out of a Debian package. no cap, it's giving detective energy 🔍

How does it do it? It parses a bunch of different files inside the package, and it might also go call out to external services to help (unless you hit it with --disable-net-access, more on that below 👇).

🫶 positional arguments

  • path — the path, bestie. that's the one you're handing over 🍓

🧚 optional arguments

  • -h, --help — shows this help message and dips. classic.
  • --trust — whether to allow running code from the package. like, actually executing it. only say yes if you trust what's in there, fr fr 🙈
  • --disable-net-access — do not probe external services. keep it offline, keep it cozy 🦋
  • --check — check the guessed metadata against external sources. vibe check time ✨
  • --consult-external-directory — pull in external directory data (the kind that's not maintained by upstream, jsyk 👑)
  • --version — shows the program's version number and exits. short and sweet 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> — absolute icon, we stan 🫶

and that's the whole thing!! this was guess-upstream-metadata version 0.53, from way back in December 2019, and yeah — it's from User Commands and it lives in section 1 of the manual. slay, go guess some metadata, periodt 💅✨

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