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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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