DCONTROL(1)															       DCONTROL(1)

NAME

       dcontrol -- Query package and source control files for all Debian distributions

SYNOPSIS

       dcontrol [options] package[modifiers] [...]

DESCRIPTION

       dcontrol queries a remote database of Debian binary and source package control files. It can be thought of as an apt-cache webservice that
       also operates for distributions and architectures different from the local machine.

MODIFIERS

       Like apt-cache, packages can be suffixed by modifiers:

       =version
	   Exact version match

       @architecture
	   Query this only architecture. Use @source for source packages, @binary excludes source packages.

       /[archive:][suite][/component]
	   Restrict to archive (debian, debian-backports, debian-security, debian-volatile), suite (always codenames, with the exception of
	   experimental), and/or component (main, updates/main, ...). Use two slashes (//) to separate suite and component if the suite name
	   contains slashes.  (Component can be left empty.)

       By default, all versions, suites, and architectures are queried. Refer to http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/dcontrol for currently supported
       values.

OPTIONS

       -s, --show-suites
	   Add headers showing which distribution the control file is from.

       -d, --debug
	   Print URL queried.

       -h, --help
	   Show a help message.

       -V, --version
	   Show version information.

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 variable is:

       DCONTROL_URL
	   URL to query. Default is http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/dcontrol.

AUTHOR

       This program is Copyright (C) 2009 by Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>.

       This program is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SEE ALSO

       apt-cache(1).

Debian Utilities						    2013-12-23							       DCONTROL(1)