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DEB-JANITOR(1)                         General Commands Manual                        DEB-JANITOR(1)

NAME
       deb-janitor - interact with the Debian Janitor service


SYNOPSIS
       deb-janitor status CAMPAIGN SOURCE?

       deb-janitor diff CAMPAIGN SOURCE?

       deb-janitor schedule CAMPAIGN SOURCE?

       deb-janitor merge [--force] CAMPAIGN

       deb-janitor review CAMPAIGN [--source SOURCE] rejected|approved|reschedule COMMENT?


DESCRIPTION
       deb-janitor  is  a  command-line  client for the Debian Janitor service, interacting with the
       API. It currently allows retrieving the diff for specific packages or scheduling new runs.

       CAMPAIGN is the name of one of the campaigns supported by the janitor. Common values  include
       lintian-fixes and multiarch-fixes. See the homepage for a full list.

       SOURCE  is  the  name of a source package. If no source package name is specified, the source
       name is retrieved from debian/changelog in the current directory.


OPTIONS
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -v, --verbose
              Output more information

       --api-url
              Override the API endpoint to communicate with, rather than using the main Debian Jani‐
              tor instance. E.g. --api-url=https://janitor.kali.org/api/.


EXAMPLES
       # Schedule a new run fixing lintian issues in the "dulwich" package:
       $ deb-janitor schedule dulwich lintian-fixes
       Scheduled. Estimated duration: 236.32s, queue position: 1 (wait time: 0.00)

       # Retrieve the diff for fontmake
       $ deb-janitor diff fontmake lintian-fixes
       === added file 'debian/upstream/metadata'
       --- a/debian/upstream/metadata     1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
       +++ b/debian/upstream/metadata     2020-11-28 11:58:34 +0000
       @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
       +---
       +Bug-Database: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues
       +Bug-Submit: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/new
       +Repository: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake.git
       +Repository-Browse: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake

       # Leave a review for a package
       $ deb-janitor review fontmake lintian-fixes rejected "Some fonts are no longer installed"

       # Merge lintian-fixes for a package
       $ debcheckout a56
       $ cd a56
       $ deb-janitor merge lintian-fixes
       Adding debian-janitor remote




AUTHORS
       deb-janitor and this manual page were written by Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer AT debian.org>

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.


SEE ALSO
       lintian-brush(1)

DEBIAN                                    Debian Utilities                            DEB-JANITOR(1)
deb-janitor(1) □✕
NAME SYNOPSIS
deb-janitor status CAMPAIGN SOURCE? deb-janitor diff CAMPAIGN SOURCE? deb-janitor schedule CAMPAIGN SOURCE? deb-janitor merge [--force] CAMPAIGN deb-janitor review CAMPAIGN [--source SOURCE] rejected|approved|reschedule COMMENT?
DESCRIPTION OPTIONS
-h, --help -v, --verbose --api-url
EXAMPLES AUTHORS SEE ALSO

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