DEBSIGS-AUTOSIGN(1p)

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💖 DEBSIGS-AUTOSIGN 💖

okay bestie, so this is debsigs-autosign from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the 1p manual section, and it is literally your batch-signing bestie for Debian packages. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

debsigs-autosign — batch-sign Debian package files 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

debsigs-autosign [options] sigtype [ ... ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: debsigs-autosign reads a newline-delimited list of file names straight from standard input, and then it runs debsigs(1) on each and every package in that list. the arguments it feeds to debsigs(1) are decided by the options, the operands, and the environment of debsigs-autosign itself. 💅

want the tea on what the different signature types actually mean? that's on the debsigs(1) manual page, bestie. go read it, it's iconic. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --archive=keyid — hands over a cryptographic key identifier for use with gpg(1). 🔑
  • --maint=keyid — same deal, another cryptographic key identifier for gpg(1). 🔑
  • --origin=keyid — yep, you guessed it: a cryptographic key identifier for gpg(1). 🔑
  • --secring=file — this one points at a secret keyring file for use with gpg(1). 🤫
  • --verbose — makes it spill the verbose output. very "tell me everything" of it. 🗣️
lowkey important: --archive, --maint, and --origin are the trio that specify cryptographic key identifiers for use with gpg(1). 🫶

✨ OPERANDS ✨

every operand is a signature type — like, the type of signature you want applied to the Debian package(s) being processed. 💖

the signature types recognized currently are:

  • archive
  • maint
  • origin

that's the whole roster, periodt. 🌈

✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

these environment variables are recognized by debsigs-autosign, and yes, they are giving main character energy:

  • DEBSIGS_ARCHIVE_ID
  • DEBSIGS_MAINT_ID
  • DEBSIGS_ORIGIN_ID

the three above specify cryptographic key identifiers for use with gpg(1). 🔐

  • DEBSIGS_SECRING

this one identifies a secret keyring file for use with gpg(1). ✨

✨ AUTHORS ✨

the legends themselves, no cap: 💜

  • John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
  • Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these too, bestie, they're all connected: 📚

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this one's running on perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-06, and it's still filed under DEBSIGS-AUTOSIGN(1p). slay, go sign some packages. 🎀✨

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