TAGPENDING(1)

✨ TAGPENDING 💅

okay so bestie, this is tagpending from the Debian Utilities manual — section 1, we love a general command 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tagpending — she tags bugs that are gonna be closed in the latest changelog as pending. like, she's the one doing the tagging, periodt.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tagpending [options]

literally that's it. options only, no positional args, she doesn't need them 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea 🍓 tagpending parses debian/changelog to figure out which bugs would get closed if you uploaded the package right now. then, for each one of those bugs, she marks it as pending — using bts(1) to do it — unless it's already pending, in which case she's like "been there, done that" and moves on. no cap ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -n, --noact — vibe check only 🧚 she'll check whether any bugs need tagging, but she will not actually tag them. all the info, zero commitment.
• -s, --silent — not a peep 💀 no messages get output at all.
• -v, --verbose — she lists every single bug she checks and tags, one by one, in turn. main character energy, she wants you to see the work 🌈
• -f, --force — she does not query the BTS. she just (re)tags every bug closed in the changelog. forceful. iconic. she's not asking 🔥
• --comments — include the changelog header line and the entries relating to the tagged bugs as comments in the generated mail. this is the default ✨

heads up bestie: when you use this in combination with --to, the header line output will always be that of the most recent version. no exceptions, iykyk.

• --no-comments — nope, do not include changelog entries in the generated mail. clean slate 🎀
• -c, --confirm — tag bugs as both confirmed and pending. double the tag, double the slay 💖
• -t, --to version — parse changelogs for all versions strictly greater than version. this is equivalent to dpkg-parsechangelog's -v option 🦋
• -i, --interactive — she shows you the exact message that would be sent to the BTS, and then — except when --noact was used — she prompts you for confirmation before sending it. consent era 🫶
• -w, --wnpp — for each bug that does not appear to belong to the current package, she checks whether it's filed against wnpp. if it is, she tags it. this means e.g. ITAs and ITPs closed in an upload get tagged too 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

bts(1) and dpkg-parsechangelog(1) — go read those too, they're the supporting cast 💜

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

this program is Copyright 2008 by Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>.

the shell script tagpending, which this program is based on, is Copyright 2004 by Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>, with changes copyright 2004-7 by their respective authors.

this program is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 📜

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was Debian Utilities, dated 2026-09-21, and the page is TAGPENDING(1) — go tag those bugs bestie, you got this 🎀✨