xenial (1) grep-excuses.1.gz

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       grep-excuses [options] [maintainer|package]

DESCRIPTION

       grep-excuses  downloads  the  autoremovals and update_excuses.html files and greps them for the specified
       maintainer or package name.  The wget 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 <https://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.

       --no-autoremovals
              Investigate and show only testing propagation excuses, not autoremovals.

       --debug
              Print debugging output to stderr (including url(s) fetched).

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>.