man dd-list (Commandes) - nicely list .deb packages and their maintainers

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

dd-list [-hiuV] [--help] [--stdin] [--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: 

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 information 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.
-u,--uploaders
Also list developers who are named as uploaders of packages, not only the maintainers. Uploaders are indicated with "(U)" appended to the package name.
-V,--version
Print the version.

AUTHOR

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>