debrelease - a wrapper around dupload or dput
debrelease [debrelease options] [dupload/dput
options]
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 configuration files are also read by debrelease
as described below.
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 configuration 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.
- --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_version_*+*.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.
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).
dput(1), dupload(1), devscripts.conf(5)
Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>, based on the original
release script by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>.