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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 packages.  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 pages 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,  liburi-perl,  libwww-perl,  bsd-mailx  |
              mailx]

       build-rdeps(1)
              search for all packages that build-depend on a given  package  [dctrl-tools,  dose-
              extra]

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

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

       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-buildpackage]

       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)
              wrapper for cvs-buildpackage to use debuild as its package building  program  [cvs-
              buildpackage, fakeroot, lintian, gnupg | gnupg2]

       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 [libdistro-info-perl, libsoap-
              lite-perl]

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

       debclean(1)
              clean 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,
              libtimedate-perl]

       debdiff(1)
              compare two versions of a Debian package to check for added and removed files.  Use
              the diffoscope package for deep comparisons. [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 | gnupg2, debian-keyring, ssh-client]

       debsnap(1)
              grab packages from http://snapshot.debian.org [libwww-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 | gnupg2]

       deb-reversion(1)
              increase  a  binary  package  version  number  and  repacks the package, useful for
              porters and the like

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

       desktop2menu(1)
              given a freedesktop.org desktop file, generate a skeleton for a menu file [libfile-
              desktopentry-perl]

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

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

       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]

       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 |
              gnupg2, 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)
              search 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 the same release but 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 package [equivs]

       mk-origtargz(1)
              rename upstream tarball, optionally changing the compression and removing  unwanted
              files [unzip, xz-utils, file]

       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]

       origtargz(1)
              fetch the orig tarball of a Debian package from various sources, and unpack it

       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 | curl]

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

       sadt(1)
              run DEP-8 tests [python3-debian]

       suspicious-source(1)
              output a list of files which are not common source files [python3-magic]

       svnpath(1)
              print Subversion repository paths [subversion]

       tagpending(1)
              run  from  a  Debian  source  tree and tag 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 [gpgv | gpgv2, gnupg |gnupg2,
              liblwp-protocol-https-perl, libwww-perl, unzip, xz-utils, file]

       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  |
              gnupg2, debian-keyring, debian-maintainers, wget]

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

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

       who-permits-upload(1)
              Retrieve information about Debian Maintainer access control lists [gnupg |  gnupg2,
              libencode-locale-perl, libwww-perl, debian-keyring]

       wrap-and-sort(1)
              wrap long lines and sort items in packaging files [python3-debian]