Ubuntu Manpage: debrelease - a wrapper around dupload or dput

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 configuration 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 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.

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_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.

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).

AUTHOR

       Julian  Gilbey  <jdg@debian.org>,  based  on  the  original   release   script   by   Christoph   Lameter
       <clameter@debian.org>.

DEBIAN                                          Debian Utilities                                   DEBRELEASE(1)