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NAME

       debrelease - a wrapper around dupload or dput

SYNOPSIS

       debrelease [debrelease options] [dupload/dput options]

DESCRIPTION

       debrelease  is  a  simple  wrapper around dupload or dput.  It is called from within the source code tree of a package, and figures out the
       current version of a package.  It then looks for the corresponding .changes file (which lists the  files  needed  to  upload  in  order	to
       release the package) in the parent directory of the source code tree and calls dupload or dput with the .changes file as parameter in order
       to perform the actual uploading.

       Options may be given to debrelease; except for the ones listed below, they are passed on unchanged to dupload or dput.  The devscripts con-
       figuration files are also read by debrelease as described below.

Directory name checking
       In  common with several other scripts in the devscripts package, debrelease will climb the directory tree until it finds a debian/changelog
       file.  As a safeguard against stray files causing potential problems, it will examine the name of the parent directory once  it	finds  the
       debian/changelog  file, and check that the directory name corresponds to the package name.  Precisely how it does this is controlled by two
       configuration file variables  DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL  and  DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX,  and	their  corresponding  command-line
       options --check-dirname-level and --check-dirname-regex.

       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL can take the following values:

       0      Never check the directory name.

       1      Only check the directory name if we have had to change directory in our search for debian/changelog.  This is the default behaviour.

       2      Always check the directory name.

       The  directory  name is checked by testing whether the current directory name (as determined by pwd(1)) matches the regex given by the con-
       figuration file option DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX or by the command line option --check-dirname-regex regex.   Here	regex  is  a  Perl
       regex  (see  perlre(3perl)),  which  will  be  anchored at the beginning and the end.  If regex contains a '/', then it must match the full
       directory path.	If not, then it must match the full directory name.  If regex contains the string 'PACKAGE', this will be replaced by  the
       source  package name, as determined from the changelog.	The default value for the regex is: 'PACKAGE(-.+)?', thus matching directory names
       such as PACKAGE and PACKAGE-version.

OPTIONS

       --dupload, --dput
	      This specifies which uploader program to use; the default is dupload.

       -S     If this option is used, or the default .changes file is not found but a source-only .changes file is present, then this  source-only
	      .changes file will be uploaded instead of an arch-specific one.

       -adebian-architecture, -tGNU-system-type
	      See  dpkg-architecture(1)  for  a description of these options.  They affect the search for the .changes file.  They are provided to
	      mimic the behaviour of dpkg-buildpackage when determining the name of the .changes file.	If a plain -t is given, it is taken to	be
	      the dupload host-specifying option, and therefore signifies the end of the debrelease-specific options.

       --multi
	      Multiarch  changes  mode:  This  signifies  that	debrelease  should  use  the  most  recent file with the name pattern package_ver-
	      sion_*+*.changes as the changes file, allowing for the changes files produced by dpkg-cross.

       --debs-dir directory
	      Look for the .changes and .deb files in directory instead of the parent of the source directory.	This should either be an  absolute
	      path or relative to the top of the source directory.

       --check-dirname-level N
	      See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of this option.

       --check-dirname-regex regex
	      See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of this option.

       --no-conf, --noconf
	      Do not read any configuration files.  This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line.

       --help, -h
	      Display a help message and exit successfully.

       --version
	      Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The  two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced 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:

       DEBRELEASE_UPLOADER
	      The currently recognised values are dupload and dput, and it specifies which uploader program should be used.  It corresponds to the
	      --dupload and --dput command line options.

       DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR
	      This specifies the directory in which to look for the .changes and .deb files, and is either an absolute path or relative to the top
	      of  the  source  tree.   This  corresponds to the --debs-dir command line option.  This directive could be used, for example, if you
	      always use pbuilder or svn-buildpackage to build your packages.  Note that it also affects debc(1) and debi(1).

       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL, DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX
	      See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of these variables.  Note that these are package-wide configuration
	      variables,  and  will therefore affect all devscripts scripts which check their value, as described in their respective manpages and
	      in devscripts.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

       dupload(1), dput(1) and devscripts.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>, based on the original release script by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>.

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