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revu-orig - Debian packages reviewing tool


revu-orig
[ --help | -h ] [ upstream tarball [ dsc file ] ]

Debian packages reviewing tool.

revu-orig is a reviewing tool from the revu-tools package, aimed to helping reviewers of Debian packages in their task. revu-orig achieves a series of tests comparing the upstream tarball with the orig.tar.gz file. It returns a series of reports in the current folder that can be used by revu-report to generate a full report. revu-orig is currently able to use debian/watch files to detect new upstream versions of the program and download the current upstream tarball to achieve the tests. It also detects Debian-native packages.

Among the informations revu-orig gives are:

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Whether the package is a Debian-native ;
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Whether the package contains a usable debian/watch file ;
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Whether new versions of the program are available, using the debian/watch file with uscan ;
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Whether the md5 sums of the upstream tarball and the orig.tar.gz are identical, and whether this is normal or not ;
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Whether there is a diff between the extracted upstream tarball and orig.tar.gz.

Show informations about the program and the usage.
Indicate what file to use as upstream tarball. This is optional since revu-orig can download the upstream tarball using debian/watch and/or detect its presence automatically in the folder.
Indicate what dsc file to use. This is optional since revu-orig can detect the dsc file automatically in the folder. Note that this argument can only be given if the tarball was given as first one.

Copyright © 2006 Raphaël Pinson.

This manual page was written by Raphaël Pinson <<raphink@ubuntu.com>> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

2005-02-08