UCLEAN(1)

💖 UCLEAN(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a command reference page for uclean, and honestly? it's giving "tiny tool, big slay" energy. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

uclean — bestie's lil helper that removes redundant files from upstream source packages 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

uclean FILE [ NEWFILE... ]

like. you give it a FILE. and then, if you want, you can give it a NEWFILE.... that's the whole vibe check 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕ — Uclean is an attempt to automate the "cleanup" procedure that can be needed for some package upstream tarballs. no cap, some tarballs just arrive messy 😭

here's what it does, step by step, and it eats every time:

1. it will try to unpack it 🎁
2. it will remove cruft — like CVS directories, .svn directories, and forgotten object files 🗑️✨
3. then it will recreate the tarball, using the highest compression ratio 🔥

and where does the result go? okay so:

• the resulting file is either stored under the same name — in which case the old one is renamed —
• or it goes to a new file if you specify it as the last argument 💖

periodt. that's the whole thing.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• /usr/share/doc/svn-buildpackage/() — the svn-buildpackage HOWTO manual 📖
• svn-inject(1) — puts a Debian source package into Subversion repository 🫙
• svn-upgrade(1) — upgrade source package from a new upstream revision ⬆️
• svn(1) — Subversion command line client tool 🖥️
• dpkg-buildpackage(1) — Debian source package tools 🧰
• lintian(1) — Debian package checker 🔍

iykyk, it's a whole Debian-adjacent friend group 💜

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Eduard Bloch — this manual page was written by Eduard Bloch in roff ✍️
• Goneri Le Bouder — converted manpages to SGML 🔄
• Neil Williams — converted manpages to DocBook XML and is the current Debian maintainer 💖

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright © 2009 Eduard Bloch

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no notes, we ate 💅✨

Release: 0.8.2 🌸 May 2009 🦋 and that's the sign-off, mwah 😘 💖