patchedit(1)

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✨ patchedit(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Debian Perl packaging Tools manual, and it's called patchedit. it lives in section 1 of the man pages, aka the "commands you actually type" section 💅. buckle up, it's DEP3 o'clock 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

patchedit — edit the headers of a patch so they follow DEP3 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

patchedit [command] patchfile

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

patchedit is a little helper script whose whole personality is managing patch headers according to <http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/> ✨. that's it, that's the job, she's a headers girlie 💅

👑 COMMANDS 👑

  • edit (and this is the default, so she's the main character) — opens patchfile in EDITOR (or VISUAL or sensible-editor, she'll ask all three, no cap), and then:
    • checks all headers 👀
    • marks problems 🚩
    • adds the missing required headers, and yes she comes with proposals for their values, she's thoughtful like that 🫶

and if you don't give her any command at all? edit gets chosen automatically, periodt.

  • check — does a non-interactive check to see whether the headers actually conform to DEP3. prints the results to stdout: missing required headers, wrong values, that kind of drama 💀.

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • patchfile (required) — the patch you want to work on. she's not optional bestie, you have to give her one 🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -f, --fix — tries to fix problems in the headers when editing/checking patches 🔧
  • -o, --optional — also add/print missing optional headers ✨
  • -h, --help — help output, for when you forgot how she works 🙈

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

patchedit respects DEBEMAIL (or EMAIL) and DEBFULLNAME — those are the ones she uses for new Author or Reviewed-by headers 💌.

🧚 NOTE 🧚

This script is not pkg-perl specific. It should go into devscripts eventually — she's got bigger dreams than her current repo, honestly 🦋

📝 TODO 📝

  1. preserve the extra fields
  2. preserve the order of the fields

(she knows. she's working on it. give her time 😭)

Copyright 2010, Jozef Kutej <jkutej@cpan.org>.

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

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little cutie came to you from pkg-perl-tools 0.88, dated 2026-04-01, filed under patchedit(1). go check those headers, they're not gonna DEP3 themselves 💖✨🎀

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