WNPP-ALERT(1)

✨ WNPP-ALERT ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is wnpp-alert, from the General Commands Manual section — a whole little tool whose entire job is checking whether the packages on your system are orphaned or up for adoption. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

wnpp-alert — check for installed packages up for adoption or orphaned

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wnpp-alert [--diff] [package ...]
wnpp-alert --help|--version

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: wnpp-alert goes and downloads the lists of packages that have been orphaned (O), are up for adoption (RFA), or whose maintainer has asked for help (RFH) — all straight from the WNPP webpages 🌐 — and then it prints out a list of packages that are installed on your system, or that match the packages you listed, and that also show up in those lists.

like, it's a little matchmaker between "what you have" and "what nobody's taking care of" 😭 iconic honestly.

heads up bestie: WNPP — and therefore wnpp-alert's output too — is source package based. so don't come for me when your binary package name isn't in there, that's just how it is 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --diff, -d — if the $XDG_CACHE_HOME/devscripts directory exists, it compares the output of wnpp-alert against the previous output (which is cached in the file wnpp-diff) and shows you the differences. it's giving "what changed since last time" energy 🔥
• --help, -h — shows a summary of the options. quick lil recap, no cap 📋
• --version, -v — shows version and copyright information. the receipts, basically 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp

💖 AUTHOR 💖

wnpp-alert was written by Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch> and modified by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> for the devscripts package. it is in the public domain. shoutout to them, absolute legends 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one lives in the Debian Utilities corner of the world, part of devscripts, and it's filed under the DEBIAN source — go forth and check your packages, you main character 🌈⭐💜