NAME

       grep-excuses - search the testing excuses files for a specific maintainer

SYNOPSIS

       grep-excuses [options] [maintainer|package]

DESCRIPTION

       grep-excuses  downloads the update_excuses.html file and greps it for the specified maintainer name.  The
       libwww-perl package is required for this script.  If no name is given on  the  command  line,  first  the
       environment  variable  DEBFULLNAME is used if it is defined, and failing that, the configuration variable
       described below is used.

OPTIONS

       --no-conf, --noconf
              Do not read any configuration files.  This can only be used as  the  first  option  given  on  the
              command-line.

       --wipnity, -w
              Get  information  from  <http://release.debian.org/migration/>.  A package name must be given when
              using this option.

       --help Show a brief usage message.

       --version
              Show version and copyright information.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are  sourced  in  that  order  to  set
       configuration  variables.   Command  line  options  can  be used to override configuration file settings.
       Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.  The currently recognised variable is:

       GREP_EXCUSES_MAINTAINER
              The default maintainer, email or package to grep for if none is specified on the command line.

SEE ALSO

       devscripts.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; modifications by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.

DEBIAN                                          Debian Utilities                                 GREP-EXCUSES(1)