WNPP-CHECK(1)

💖 WNPP-CHECK(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is wnpp-check, a lil tool from the Debian Utilities corner of the manual (that's section 1, general commands, iykyk) — and it's here to answer one very specific, very important question for you. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

wnpp-check — check if a package is being packaged or if this has been requested 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wnpp-check [--exact] package ...
wnpp-check --help|--version

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: wnpp-check goes and downloads the lists from the WNPP website — that's the list of packages that are already being packaged (aka ITPed) and the list of packages somebody has requested be packaged (aka RFPed) — and then it looks at every package you handed it on the command line and prints out the ones that show up in those lists. like a little matching game but for Debian packages ✨

ngl, one thing you gotta know: WNPP, and therefore wnpp-check's output too, is source package based. not binary. source. don't forget it 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --exact, -e — bestie wants an exact package name match, not the default substring match. strict queen behavior 💅
• --help, -h — shows you a lil summary of the options. a snack, a treat 🍓
• --version, -v — shows the version and copyright info. the receipts, fr fr 📜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — none of the packages you supplied has an open ITP or RFP. clean. nothing to see here 🙈
• 1 — either an error happened, or at least one of the packages you supplied does have an open ITP or RFP. something's up, go look 👀

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

wnpp-check was written by David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com> 🫶 and this man page was written by Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> for the devscripts package. and plot twist — wnpp-check was originally based on wnpp-alert, which was written by Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch> and then modified by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> for the devscripts package. both scripts are in the public domain. iconic lineage tbh 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came out of the Debian / Debian Utilities manual, living in the devscripts package — so if you ever need to cite it, that's the whole receipt. slay, go check some packages, periodt ✨🎀