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DEVSCRIPTS

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debuild

A wrapper for dpkg-buildpackage to avoid problems with insufficient permissions and wrong paths etc. debuild will set up the proper environment for building a package. debuild will use the fakeroot program to build the package by default, but can be instructed to use any other gain-root command, or can even be installed setuid root. debuild can also be used to run various of the debian/rules operations with the same root-gaining procedure. debuild will also run lintian to check that the package does not have any major policy violations.

debsign

Use gpg (the GNU Privacy Guard) to sign the .changes and .dsc files created by running dpkg-buildpackage with no-sign options. Useful if you are building a package on a remote machine and wish to sign it on a local one. This script is capable of automatically downloading the .changes and .dsc files from a remote machine.

debrsign

This transfers a .changes/.dsc pair to a remote machine for signing, and runs debsign on the remote machine over an SSH connection.

debrelease

A wrapper around dupload or dput which figures out which version to upload, and then calls dupload or dput to actually perform the upload.

debchange, dch

Modifies debian/changelog and manages version numbers for you. It will either increment the version number or add an entry for the current version, depending upon the options given to it.

dpkg-depcheck, dpkg-genbuilddeps

Runs a specified command (such as debian/rules build) or dpkg-buildpackage, respectively, to determine the packages used during the build process. This information can be helpful when trying to determine the packages needed in the Build-Depends etc. lines in the debian/control file.

debpkg

A wrapper for dpkg used by debi to allow convenient testing of packages. For debpkg to work, it needs to be made setuid root. For more details of this, please see the debpkg manpage.

debdiff

A program which examines two .deb files or two .changes files and reports on any difference found in their file lists. Useful for ensuring that no files were inadvertantly lost between versions.

debi

Installs the current package by using the setuid root debpkg script described above. It assumes that the current package has just been built (for example by debuild), and the .deb lives in the parent directory, and will effectively run dpkg -i on the .deb. The ability to install the package with a very short command is very useful when troubleshooting packages.

debit

Like debi, but also runs debian-test to test the package after installation.

debc

List contents of current package. Do this after a successful debuild to see if the package looks all right.

debclean

Clean a Debian source tree. debclean will clean all Debian source trees below the current directory, and if requested, also remove all files that were generated from these source trees (that is any .deb, .dsc and .changes files). It will keep the .diffs and original files, though, so that the binaries and other files can be rebuilt if necessary.

uupdate

Update the package with an archive or patches from an upstream author. This will be of help if you have to update your package. It will try to apply the latest diffs to your package and tell you how successful it was.

uscan

Automatically scan for and download upstream updates. uscan can also call a program such as uupdate to attempt to update the Debianised version based on the new update. Whilst uscan could be used to release the updated version automatically, it is probably better not to without testing it first.

dscverify

Check the signature and MD5 sums of a .dsc file against the most current Debian keyring on your system.

mergechanges

Merge .changes files from the same release but built on different architectures.

plotchangelog

Display information from a changelog graphically using gnuplot.

bts

A command-line tool for accessing the BTS, both to send mails to control@bts.debian.org and to access the web pages of the BTS.

grep-excuses

Grep the update_excuses.html file to find out what is happening to your packages.

/usr/share/doc/devscripts/examples

This directory contains examples of procmail and exim scripts for sorting mail arriving to Debian mailing lists.

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