NAME

       debpatch - Applies a patch to recreate a debian package.

SYNOPSIS

       debpatch [OPTION]... DELTA FROMFILE TOFILE
       debpatch [OPTION]... DELTA / TOFILE
       debpatch --info PATCH

DESCRIPTION

       This  program  is  designed to apply a patch (DELTA) to a Debian package (FROMFILE) and create the Debian
       package (TOFILE).  If the Debian package (FROMFILE) was installed in the host system and the .deb file is
       not available, then the argument (FROMFILE) may be  substituted by the keyword / : then debpatch will get
       the needed data from the host filesystem.

OPTIONS

       --info PATCH
              Write info on PATCH

       --no-md5
              do not verify MD5 info.

       -v     verbose (can be added multiple times).

       -d     print full traceback on Python errors; save useful info in temporary files in case  that  a  delta
              fails.

       -k     keep temporary files (use for debugging).

       --format FORMAT
              format of recreated debs. FORMAT=deb is the usual, FORMAT=unzipped means that the data.tar part is
              not compressed, (and this may save some time)

       -A --accept-unsigned
              accept unsigned deltas.

       --gpg-home
              specify a different home for GnuPG, default for root is /etc/debdelta/gnupg while for other  users
              is unset. See --homedir in gpg(1) for details.

EXAMPLES

       See debdelta(1)

SECURITY

       See debdelta(1)

EXIT STATUS

       See debdelta(1)

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <mennucc1@debian.org>.

AUTHORS

       Debpatch was written and is copyright © 2006-09 Andrea Mennucci.
       This man page was written by Jegou Pierre-yves <pierreyves.jeg@voila.fr>.

COPYING

       This  is  free  software.   You  may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU Library General
       Public  License  <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.0.html>.   There  is  NO  WARRANTY,  to  the  extent
       permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       debdelta-upgrade(1), debdelta(1), /usr/share/doc/debdelta/README.