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NAME

       devscripts - scripts to ease the lives of Debian developers

DESCRIPTION

       The  devscripts	package provides a collection of scripts which may be of use to Debian developers and others wishing to build Debian pack-
       ages.  For a summary of the available scripts, please see the file /usr/share/doc/devscripts/README.gz, and for full  details,  please  see
       the individual manpages.  They are contributed by multiple developers; for details of the authors, please see the code or manpages.

       Also,  the  directory /usr/share/doc/devscripts/examples contains examples of procmail and exim scripts for sorting mail arriving to Debian
       mailing lists.

ENVIRONMENT

       Several scripts of the devscripts suite use the following environment variables. Check the man page of individual scripts for more  details
       on how the variables are used.

       DEBEMAIL
	   Email of the person acting on a given Debian package via devscripts.

       DEBFULLNAME
	   Full name (first + family) of the person acting on a given Debian package via devscripts.

SCRIPTS

       Here is the complete list of available devscripts. See their man pages for additional documentation.

       annotate-output(1)
	      run a command and prepend time and stream (O for stdout, E for stderr) for every line of output

       archpath(1)
	      print tla/Bazaar package names [tla | bazaar]

       bts(1) a  command-line  tool  for  manipulating the BTS [www-browser, libauthen-sasl-perl, libnet-smtp-ssl-perl, libsoap-lite-perl, libwww-
	      perl, bsd-mailx | mailx]

       build-rdeps(1)
	      Searches for all packages that build-depend on a given package [dctrl-tools]

       chdist(1)
	      tool to easily play with several distributions [dctrl-tools]

       checkbashisms(1)
	      check whether a /bin/sh script contains any common bash-specific contructs

       cowpoke(1)
	      upload a Debian source package to a cowbuilder host and build it, optionally also signing and uploading the result  to  an  incoming
	      queue [ssh-client]

       cvs-debi, cvs-debc(1)
	      wrappers around debi and debc respectively (see below) which allow them to be called from the CVS working directory. [cvs-buildpack-
	      age]

       cvs-debrelease(1)
	      wrapper around debrelease which allows it to be called from the CVS working  directory.  [cvs-buildpackage,  dupload  |  dput,  ssh-
	      client]

       cvs-debuild(1)
	      A wrapper for cvs-buildpackage to use debuild as its package building program. [cvs-buildpackage, fakeroot, lintian, gnupg]

       dcmd(1)
	      run a given command replacing the name of a .changes or .dsc file with each of the files referenced therein

       dcontrol(1)
	      remotely query package and source control files for all Debian distributions. [liburl-perl, libwww-perl]

       dd-list(1)
	      given a list of packages, pretty-print it ordered by maintainer

       debc(1)
	      display the contents of just-built .debs

       debchange/dch(1)
	      automagically add entries to debian/changelog files [libparse-debcontrol-perl, libsoap-lite-perl]

       debcheckout(1)
	      checkout the development repository of a Debian package

       debclean(1)
	      purge a Debian source tree [fakeroot]

       debcommit(1)
	      commit  changes  to cvs, darcs, svn, svk, tla, bzr, git, or hg, basing commit message on changelog [cvs | darcs | subversion | svk |
	      tla | bzr | git-core | mercurial]

       debdiff(1)
	      compare two versions of a Debian package to check for added and removed files [wdiff, patchutils]

       debi(1)
	      install a just-built package

       debpkg(1)
	      dpkg wrapper to be able to manage/test packages without su

       debrelease(1)
	      wrapper around dupload or dput [dupload | dput, ssh-client]

       debsign, debrsign(1)
	      sign a .changes/.dsc pair without needing any of the rest of the package to be present; can sign the pair remotely or fetch the pair
	      from a remote machine for signing [gnupg, debian-keyring, ssh-client]

       debsnap(1)
	      grab packages from http://snapshot.debian.org [libwww-perl, libjson-perl]

       debuild(1)
	      wrapper  to  build a package without having to su or worry about how to invoke dpkg to build using fakeroot.  Also deals with common
	      environment problems, umask etc. [fakeroot, lintian, gnupg]

       deb-reversion(1)
	      increases a binary package version number and repacks the archive

       dep3changelog(1)
	      generate a changelog entry from a DEP3-style patch header

       desktop2menu(1)
	      produce a skeleton menu file from a freedesktop.org desktop file [libfile-desktopentry-perl]

       dget(1)
	      downloads Debian source and binary packages [wget | curl]

       dpkg-depcheck, dpkg-genbuilddeps(1)
	      determine the packages used during the build of a Debian package; useful for determining	the  Build-Depends  control  field  needed
	      [build-essential, strace]

       diff2patches(1)
	      extract patches from a .diff.gz file placing them  under debian/ or, if present, debian/patches [patchutils]

       dscextract(1)
	      extract a single file from a Debian source package [patchutils]

       dscverify(1)
	      verify the integrity of a Debian package from the .changes or .dsc files [gnupg, debian-keyring, libdigest-md5-perl]

       edit-patch(1)
	      add/edit a patch for a source package and commit the changes [quilt | dpatch | cdbs]

       getbuildlog(1)
	      download package build logs from Debian auto-builders [wget]

       grep-excuses(1)
	      grep the update_excuses.html file for your packages [libterm-size-perl, wget, w3m]

       licensecheck(1)
	      attempt to determine the license of source files

       list-unreleased(1)
	      searches for unreleased packages

       manpage-alert(1)
	      locate binaries without corresponding manpages [man-db]

       mass-bug(1)
	      mass-file bug reports [bsd-mailx | mailx]

       mergechanges(1)
	      merge .changes files from a package built on different architectures

       mk-build-deps(1)
	      Given  a package name and/or control file, generate a binary package which may be installed to satisfy the build-dependencies of the
	      given packages. [equivs]

       namecheck(1)
	      Check project names are not already taken.

       nmudiff(1)
	      mail a diff of the current package against the previous version to the BTS to assist in tracking NMUs [patchutils, mutt]

       plotchangelog(1)
	      view a nice plot of the data in a changelog file [libtimedate-perl, gnuplot]

       pts-subscribe(1)
	      subscribe to the PTS for a limited period of time [bsd-mailx | mailx, at]

       rc-alert(1)
	      list installed packages which have release-critical bugs [wget]

       rmadison(1)
	      remotely query the Debian archive database about packages [wget | curl, liburi-perl]

       suspicious-source(1)
	      output a list of files which are not common source files [python-magic]

       svnpath(1)
	      print svn repository paths [subversion]

       tagpending(1)
	      runs from a Debian source tree and tags bugs that are to be closed in the latest changelog as pending. [libsoap-lite-perl]

       transition-check(1)
	      Check a list of source packages for involvement in transitions for which uploads to unstable  are  currently  blocked  [libwww-perl,
	      libyaml-syck-perl]

       uscan(1)
	      scan upstream sites for new releases of packages [libcrypt-ssleay-perl, libwww-perl, unzip, xz-utils]

       uupdate(1)
	      integrate upstream changes into a source package [patch]

       what-patch(1)
	      determine what patch system, if any, a source package is using [patchutils]

       whodepends(1)
	      check which maintainers' packages depend on a package

       who-uploads(1)
	      determine the most recent uploaders of a package to the Debian archive [gnupg, debian-keyring, wget]

       wnpp-alert(1)
	      list installed packages which are orphaned or up for adoption [wget]

       wnpp-check(1)
	      check whether there is an open request for packaging or intention to package bug for a package [wget]

       wrap-and-sort(1)
	      wrap long lines and sort items in packaging files [python-debian]

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