1DEVSCRIPTS(1) General Commands Manual DEVSCRIPTS(1)
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6 devscripts - scripts to ease the lives of Debian developers
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9 The devscripts package provides a collection of scripts which may be of
10 use to Debian developers and others wishing to build Debian packages.
11 For a summary of the available scripts, please see the file
12 /usr/share/doc/devscripts/README.gz, and for full details, please see
13 the individual manpages. They are contributed by multiple developers;
14 for details of the authors, please see the code or manpages.
15 Also, the directory /usr/share/doc/devscripts/examples contains exam‐
17 ples of procmail and exim scripts for sorting mail arriving to Debian
18 mailing lists.
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21 Several scripts of the devscripts suite use the following environment
22 variables. Check the man pages of individual scripts for more details
23 on how the variables are used.
24 DEBEMAIL
26 Email of the person acting on a given Debian package via
27 devscripts.
28 DEBFULLNAME
30 Full name (first + family) of the person acting on a given Debian
31 package via devscripts.
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34 Here is the complete list of available devscripts. See their man pages
35 for additional documentation.
36 annotate-output(1)
38 run a command and prepend time and stream (O for stdout, E for
39 stderr) for every line of output.
40 archpath(1)
42 Prints arch (tla/Bazaar) package names. Also supports calculat‐
43 ing the package names for other branches. [tla | bazaar]
44 bts(1) A command-line tool for accessing the Debian Bug Tracking Sys‐
46 tem, both to send mails to control@bts.debian.org and to access
47 the web pages and SOAP interface of the BTS. [www-browser,
48 libauthen-sasl-perl, libnet-smtps-perl, libsoap-lite-perl,
49 liburi-perl, libwww-perl, bsd-mailx | mailx]
50 build-rdeps(1)
52 Searches for all packages that build-depend on a given package.
53 [dctrl-tools, dose-extra, libdpkg-perl]
54 chdist(1)
56 tool to easily play with several distributions. [dctrl-tools]
57 checkbashisms(1)
59 check whether a /bin/sh script contains any common bash-specific
60 constructs.
61 cowpoke(1)
63 upload a Debian source package to a cowbuilder host and build
64 it, optionally also signing and uploading the result to an
65 incoming queue. [ssh-client]
66 cvs-debi, cvs-debc(1)
68 wrappers around debi and debc respectively (see below) which
69 allow them to be called from the CVS working directory. [cvs-
70 buildpackage]
71 cvs-debrelease(1)
73 wrapper around debrelease which allows it to be called from the
74 CVS working directory. [cvs-buildpackage, dupload | dput, ssh-
75 client]
76 cvs-debuild(1)
78 A wrapper for cvs-buildpackage to use debuild as its package
79 building program. [cvs-buildpackage, fakeroot, lintian, gnupg
80 |gnupg2]
81 dcmd(1)
83 run a given command replacing the name of a .changes or .dsc
84 file with each of the files referenced therein. *
85 dcontrol(1)
87 remotely query package and source control files for all Debian
88 distributions. [liburl-perl, libwww-perl]
89 dd-list(1)
91 given a list of packages, pretty-print it ordered by maintainer.
92 *
93 debc(1)
95 List contents of current package. Do this after a successful
96 "debuild" to see if the package looks all right.
97 debchange (abbreviation dch)[24m(1)
99 Modifies debian/changelog and manages version numbers for you.
100 It will either increment the version number or add an entry for
101 the current version, depending upon the options given to it.
102 [libdistro-info-perl, libsoap-lite-perl]*
103 debcheckout(1)
105 checkout the development repository of a Debian package. *
106 debclean(1)
108 Clean a Debian source tree. Debclean will clean all Debian
109 source trees below the current directory, and if requested, also
110 remove all files that were generated from these source trees
111 (that is .deb, .dsc and .changes files). It will keep the
112 .diffs and original files, though, so that the binaries and
113 other files can be rebuilt if necessary. [fakeroot]*
114 debcommit(1)
116 Commits changes to cvs, darcs, svn, svk, tla, bzr, git, or hg,
117 using new entries in debian/changelog as the commit message.
118 Also supports tagging Debian package releases. [cvs | darcs |
119 subversion | svk | tla | bzr | git-core | mercurial, libtime‐
120 date-perl]
121 debdiff(1)
123 A program which examines two .deb files or two .changes files
124 and reports on any difference found in their file lists. Useful
125 for ensuring that no files were inadvertently lost between ver‐
126 sions. Can also examine two .dsc files and report on the
127 changes between source versions. For a deeper comparison one can
128 use the diffoscope package. [wdiff, patchutils]*
129 debdiff-apply(1)
131 Apply unified diffs of two Debian source packages, such as those
132 generated by debdiff, to a target Debian source package. Any
133 changes to debian/changelog are dealt with specially, to avoid
134 the conflicts that changelog diffs typically produce when
135 applied naively. May be used to check that old patches still
136 apply to newer versions of those packages. [python3-debian,
137 python3-unidiff, quilt]
138 debi(1)
140 Installs the current package by using the setuid root debpkg
141 script described below. It assumes that the current package has
142 just been built (for example by debuild), and the .deb lives in
143 the parent directory, and will effectively run dpkg -i on the
144 .deb. The ability to install the package with a very short com‐
145 mand is very useful when troubleshooting packages.
146 debpkg(1)
148 A wrapper for dpkg used by debi to allow convenient testing of
149 packages. For debpkg to work, it needs to be made setuid root,
150 and this needs to be performed by the sysadmin -- it is not
151 installed as setuid root by default. (Note that being able to
152 run a setuid root debpkg is effectively the same as having root
153 access to the system, so this should be done with caution.)
154 Having debpkg as a wrapper for dpkg can be a Good Thing (TM), as
155 it decreases the potential for damage by accidental wrong use of
156 commands in superuser mode (e.g., an inadvertent rm -rf * in the
157 wrong directory is disastrous as many can attest to).
158 debrelease(1)
160 A wrapper around dupload or dput which figures out which version
161 to upload, and then calls dupload or dput to actually perform
162 the upload. [dupload | dput, ssh-client]
163 debrepro(1)
165 A script that tests reproducibility of Debian packages. It will
166 build a given source directory twice, with a set of variation
167 between the first and second build, and compare the binary pack‐
168 ages produced. If diffoscope is installed, it is used to compare
169 non-matching binaries. If disorderfs is installed, it is used
170 during the build to inject non-determinism in filesystem listing
171 operations. [faketime, diffoscope, disorderfs]
172 debrsign(1)
174 This transfers a .changes/.dsc pair to a remote machine for
175 signing, and runs debsign on the remote machine over an SSH con‐
176 nection. [gnupg | gnupg2, debian-keyring, ssh-client]
177 debsign(1)
179 Use GNU Privacy Guard to sign the changes (and possibly dsc)
180 files created by running dpkg-buildpackage with no-sign options.
181 Useful if you are building a package on a remote machine and
182 wish to sign it on a local one. This script is capable of auto‐
183 matically downloading the .changes and .dsc files from a remote
184 machine. [gnupg |gnupg2, debian-keyring, ssh-client]*
185 debsnap(1)
187 grab packages from https://snapshot.debian.org [libwww-perl,
188 libjson-perl]
189 debuild(1)
191 A wrapper for building a package (i.e., dpkg-buildpackage) to
192 avoid problems with insufficient permissions and wrong paths
193 etc. Debuild will set up the proper environment for building a
194 package. Debuild will use the fakeroot program to build the
195 package by default, but can be instructed to use any other gain-
196 root command, or can even be installed setuid root. Debuild can
197 also be used to run various of the debian/rules operations with
198 the same root-gaining procedure. Debuild will also run lintian
199 to check that the package does not have any major policy viola‐
200 tions. [fakeroot, lintian, gnupg | gnupg2]*
201 deb-reversion(1)
203 increases a binary package version number and repacks the pack‐
204 age, useful for porters and the like.
205 dep3changelog(1)
207 generate a changelog entry from a DEP3-style patch header.
208 desktop2menu(1)
210 given a freedesktop.org desktop file, generate a skeleton for a
211 menu file. [libfile-desktopentry-perl]
212 dget(1)
214 Downloads Debian source and binary packages. Point at a .changes
215 or .dsc to download all references files. Specify a package name
216 to download it from the configured apt repository. [wget | curl]
217 diff2patches(1)
219 extracts patches from a .diff.gz file placing them under debian/
220 or, if present, debian/patches. [patchutils]
221 dpkg-depcheck, dpkg-genbuilddeps(1)
223 Runs a specified command (such as debian/rules build) or dpkg-
224 buildpackage, respectively, to determine the packages used dur‐
225 ing the build process. This information can be helpful when
226 trying to determine the packages needed in the Build-Depends
227 etc. lines in the debian/control file. [build-essential, strace]
228 dscextract(1)
230 extract a single file from a Debian source package. [patchutils]
231 dscverify(1)
233 check the signature and MD5 sums of a dsc file against the most
234 current Debian keyring on your system. [gnupg | gnupg2, debian-
235 keyring]
236 edit-patch(1)
238 add/edit a patch for a source package and commit the changes.
239 [quilt | dpatch | cdbs]
240 getbuildlog(1)
242 download package build logs from Debian auto-builders. [wget]
243 git-deborig(1)
245 try to produce Debian orig.tar using git-archive(1). [libdpkg-
246 perl, libgit-wrapper-perl, liblist-compare-perl, libstring-shel‐
247 lquote-perl, libtry-tiny-perl]
248 grep-excuses(1)
250 grep britney's excuses to find out what is happening to your
251 packages. [libdbd-pg-perl, libterm-size-perl, libyaml-syck-perl,
252 wget, w3m]
253 hardening-check(1)
255 report the hardening characteristics of a set of binaries.
256 list-unreleased(1)
258 searches for packages marked UNRELEASED in their changelog.
259 ltnu (Long Time No Upload)[24m(1)
261 List all uploads of packages by the given uploader or maintainer
262 and display them ordered by the last upload of that package,
263 oldest uploads first.
264 manpage-alert(1)
266 locate binaries without corresponding manpages. [man-db]
267 mass-bug(1)
269 mass-file bug reports. [bsd-mailx | mailx]
270 mergechanges(1)
272 merge .changes files from the same release but built on differ‐
273 ent architectures.
274 mk-build-deps(1)
276 Given a package name and/or control file, generate a binary
277 package which may be installed to satisfy the build-dependencies
278 of the given package. [equivs]
279 mk-origtargz(1)
281 Rename upstream tarball, optionally changing the compression and
282 removing unwanted files. [libfile-which-perl, unzip, xz-utils,
283 file]
284 namecheck(1)
286 Check project names are not already taken.
287 nmudiff(1)
289 prepare a diff of this version (presumably an NMU against the
290 previously released version (as per the changelog) and submit
291 the diff to the BTS. [patchutils, mutt]
292 origtargz(1)
294 fetch the orig tarball of a Debian package from various sources,
295 and unpack it.
296 plotchangelog(1)
298 display information from a changelog graphically using gnuplot.
299 [libtimedate-perl, gnuplot]
300 pts-subscribe(1)
302 subscribe to the PTS (Package Tracking System) for a limited
303 period of time. [bsd-mailx | mailx, at]
304 rc-alert(1)
306 list installed packages which have release-critical bugs. [wget
307 | curl]
308 rmadison(1)
310 remotely query the Debian archive database about packages.
311 [liburi-perl, wget | curl]
312 sadt(1)
314 run DEP-8 tests. [python3-debian]
315 salsa(1)
317 manipulates salsa.debian.org repositories and users [libgitlab-
318 api-v4-perl]
319 suspicious-source(1)
321 output a list of files which are not common source files.
322 [python3-magic]
323 svnpath(1)
325 Prints the path to the Subversion repository of a Subversion
326 checkout. Also supports calculating the paths for branches and
327 tags in a repository independent fashion. Used by debcommit to
328 generate svn tags. [subversion]
329 tagpending(1)
331 runs from a Debian source tree and tags bugs that are to be
332 closed in the latest changelog as pending. [libsoap-lite-perl]
333 transition-check(1)
335 Check a list of source packages for involvement in transitions
336 for which uploads to unstable are currently blocked. [libwww-
337 perl, libyaml-syck-perl]
338 uscan(1)
340 Automatically scan for and download upstream updates. Uscan can
341 also call a program such as uupdate to attempt to update the
342 Debianised version based on the new update. Whilst uscan could
343 be used to release the updated version automatically, it is
344 probably better not to without testing it first. Uscan can also
345 verify detached OpenPGP signatures if upstream's signing key is
346 known. [file, gpgv | gpgv2, gnupg | gnupg2, libfile-which-perl,
347 liblwp-protocol-https-perl, libmoo-perl, libwww-perl, unzip, xz-
348 utils]*
349 uupdate(1)
351 Update the package with an archive or patches from an upstream
352 author. This will be of help if you have to update your pack‐
353 age. It will try to apply the latest diffs to your package and
354 tell you how successful it was. [patch]
355 what-patch(1)
357 determine what patch system, if any, a source package is using.
358 [patchutils]
359 whodepends(1)
361 check which maintainers' packages depend on a package.
362 who-permits-upload(1)
364 Retrieve information about Debian Maintainer access control
365 lists. [gnupg | gnupg2, libencode-locale-perl, libwww-perl,
366 debian-keyring]
367 who-uploads(1)
369 determine the most recent uploaders of a package to the Debian
370 archive. [gnupg | gnupg2, debian-keyring, debian-maintainers,
371 wget]
372 wnpp-alert(1)
374 list installed packages which are orphaned or up for adoption.
375 [wget | curl]
376 wnpp-check(1)
378 check whether there is an open request for packaging or inten‐
379 tion to package bug for a package. [wget | curl]
380 wrap-and-sort(1)
382 wrap long lines and sort items in packaging files.
383 [python3-debian]
384DEBIAN Debian Utilities DEVSCRIPTS(1)