dpt-forward - Forward a bug or a patch upstream
dpt forward [option...] path/to/some.patch [bug-number]
dpt forward [option...] bug-number [path/to/some.patch]
- --dist
name
- -d name
- Distribution name. Determined from META, the
"Name" field in
debian/upstream/metadata, the
"Homepage" field in
debian/control file or the
"Source" field in
debian/copyright, in that order.
- --force
- Normally dpt-forward checks if the bug/patch is already forwarded
upstream and aborts if so. With this option, the check is still done, but
execution is not aborted and only a warning is issued.
- --meta
file
- Specifies the location of the META file. Defaults to
META.json or META.yml in the current directory, whichever is
found first.
- --mode
bug|patch
- -m bug|patch
- Mode of operation. Should rarely be needed.
Determines the meaning of the arguments. bug means that
the first argument is a bug number, and the second argument is a patch
file name. patch means the opposite.
Determined from the first non-option argument and whether it
looks like a bug number or a patch file name.
- --offline-test
- All operations that require network are replaced with stubs, allowing for
off-line testing.
- --ticket
number
- If present, the information is submitted to the ticket as an additional
comment.
If missing, a new ticket is created.
- --tracker
name
- -t name
- Tracker used by the distribution. dpt forward currently supports
cpan (<http://rt.cpan.org>) and github. The default is
determined from the
"resources->bugtracker->web" field
of META. If that field is not present, cpan is used.
- --tracker-url
url
- -u url
- Tracker URL to submit the information to. Taken from the
"resources->bugtracker->web" field
of META or the "Bug-Database"
field in debian/upstream/metadata. Defaults to
"https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=dist-name"
for cpan and is mandatory for github.
- --use-mail
- Send bug and patch submissions by e-mail instead of creating an issue or
pull request via API. As the resulting ticket URL is not known to dpt
forward, it cannot mark patch and bug as forwarded.
- --mailto
address
- This option sets the e-mail address to forward to. The default is
determined from the
"resources->bugtracker->mailto"
field of META or CPAN RT bug address if that field is not
present.
- --fallback
- Enable fallback to forwarding patches as bug reports when pull requests
fail for any reason. Defaults to false.
- ~/.pause
- Your pause credentials. At least user and password are
needed in order to create tickets on rt.cpan.org via REST API. dpt
forward will fall back to email (slower, won't mark patches and bugs
forwarded) otherwise.
- DPT_GITHUB_OAUTH
- In order to perform github operations, DPT_GITHUB_OAUTH must be set. See
dpt-github-oauth(1) on how to obtain an access token for your
github account, and dpt-config(5) on storing settings permanently
in dpt.conf.
- DPT_GITHUB_ORGNAME
- Producing merge requests on github as a result of forwarding a patch
requires that you belong to an organization that will own the cloned
repositories from upstream. Therefore you'll need that some organization
administrator invites you; for instance by using
dpt-invite-github(1).
For more details about tuning merge requests through
environment variables and their defaults, please see
Debian::PkgPerl::GitHub(1).
Forwarding tutorial
<https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/forward.html>