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NAME
rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages

SYNOPSIS
rmadison [OPTIONS] PACKAGE ...

DESCRIPTION
dak ls queries the Debian archive database ("projectb") and displays which package version
is registered per architecture/component/suite. The CGI at
https://qa.debian.org/madison.php provides that service without requiring SSH access to
ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror on mirror.ftp-master.debian.org. This script,
rmadison, is a command line frontend to this CGI.

OPTIONS
-a, --architecture=ARCH
only show info for ARCH(s)

-b, --binary-type=TYPE
only show info for binary TYPE

-c, --component=COMPONENT
only show info for COMPONENT(s)

-g, --greaterorequal
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >= {highest version}' info

-G, --greaterthan
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >> {highest version}' info

-h, --help
show this help and exit

-s, --suite=SUITE
only show info for this suite

-r, --regex
treat PACKAGE as a regex

Note: Since -r can easily DoS the database ("-r ."), this option is not supported by
the CGI on qa.debian.org and most other installations.

-S, --source-and-binary
show info for the binary children of source pkgs

-t, --time
show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all archives)

-u, --url=URL[,URL ...]
use URL for the query. Supported shorthands are
debian https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison
new https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?s=new
qa https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
ubuntu https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
udd https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi

See the RMADISON_URL_MAP_ variable below for a method to add new shorthands.

--version
show version and exit

--no-conf, --noconf
don't read the devscripts configuration files

ARCH, COMPONENT and SUITE can be comma (or space) separated lists, e.g.
--architecture=m68k,i386

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell
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 variables are:

RMADISON_URL_MAP_SHORTHAND=URL
Add an entry to the set of shorthand URLs listed above. SHORTHAND should be replaced
with the shorthand form to be used to refer to URL.

Multiple shorthand entries may be specified by using multiple RMADISON_URL_MAP_*
variables.

RMADISON_DEFAULT_URL=URL
Set the default URL to use unless overridden by a command line option. For Debian
this defaults to debian. For Ubuntu this defaults to ubuntu.

RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE=ARCH
Set the default architecture to use unless overridden by a command line option. To
run an unrestricted query when RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE is set, use --architecture='*'.

RMADISON_SSL_CA_FILE=FILE
Use the specified CA file instead of the default CA bundle for curl/wget, passed as
--cacert to curl, and as --ca-certificate to wget.

RMADISON_SSL_CA_PATH=PATH
Use the specified CA directory instead of the default CA bundle for curl/wget, passed
as --capath to curl, and as --ca-directory to wget.

NOTES
dak ls was formerly called madison.

The protocol used by rmadison is fairly simple, the CGI accepts query the parameters a, b,
c, g, G, r, s, S, t, and package. The parameter text is passed to enable plain-text
output.