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Copyright 2005 Lars Wirzenius

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/dd-list.1".)

NAME

dd-list - nicely list .deb packages and their maintainers

SYNOPSIS

dd-list [-hiusV] [--help] [--stdin] [--sources Sources_file] [--dctrl] [--version] [--uploaders] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION

dd-list produces nicely formatted lists of Debian (.deb) packages and their maintainers.

Input is a list of source or binary package names on the command line (or the standard input if --stdin is given). Output is a list of the following format, where package names are source packages by default:

J. Random Developer <jrandom@debian.org>
j-random-package
j-random-other


Diana Hacker <diana@example.org>
fun-package
more-fun-package

This is useful when you want, for example, to produce a list of packages that need to attention from their maintainers, e.g., to be rebuilt when a library version transition happens.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Print brief help message.

-i, --stdin

Read package names from the standard input, instead of taking them from the command line. Package names are whitespace delimited.

-d, --dctrl

Read package list from standard input in the format of a Debian package control file. This includes the status file, or output of apt-cache. This is the fastest way to use dd-list, as it uses the maintainer information from the input instead of looking up the maintainer of each listed package.

If no Source: line is given, the Package: name is used for output, which might be a binary package name.

-z, --uncompress

Try to uncompress the --dctrl input before parsing. Supported compression formats are gz and bzip2.

-s, --sources Sources_file

Read package information from the specified Sources_files. This can be given multiple times. The files can be gz or bzip2 compressed. If the filename does not end in .gz or .bz2, then the -z option must be used.

If no Sources_files are specified, any files matching /var/lib/apt/lists/*_source_Sources will be used.

-u, --uploaders

Also list developers who are named as uploaders of packages, not only the maintainers; this is the default behaviour, use --nouploaders to prevent it. Uploaders are indicated with "(U)" appended to the package name.

-nou, --nouploaders

Only list package Maintainers, do not list Uploaders.

-b, --print-binary

Use binary package names in the output instead of source package names (has no effect with --dctrl if the Package: line contains source package names).

-V, --version

Print the version.

AUTHOR

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>