summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/man/dpkg-genchanges.man
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-06 00:45:20 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-06 00:45:20 +0000
commit9a08cbfcc1ef900a04580f35afe2a4592d7d6030 (patch)
tree004cc7027bca2f2c0bcb5806527c8e0c48df2d6e /man/dpkg-genchanges.man
parentInitial commit. (diff)
downloaddpkg-upstream/1.19.8.tar.xz
dpkg-upstream/1.19.8.zip
Adding upstream version 1.19.8.upstream/1.19.8upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--man/dpkg-genchanges.man223
1 files changed, 223 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-genchanges.man b/man/dpkg-genchanges.man
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab9b074
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/dpkg-genchanges.man
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+.\" dpkg manual page - dpkg-genchanges(1)
+.\"
+.\" Copyright © 1995-1996 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+.\" Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
+.\" Copyright © 2006-2016 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+.\" Copyright © 2008-2010 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+.\"
+.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.
+.TH dpkg\-genchanges 1 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite"
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+dpkg\-genchanges \- generate Debian .changes files
+.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B dpkg\-genchanges
+.RI [ option ...]
+.br
+.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B dpkg\-genchanges
+reads information from an unpacked and built Debian source tree and
+from the files it has generated and generates a Debian upload control
+file
+.RB ( .changes " file)."
+.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI \-\-build= type
+Specifies the build \fItype\fP from a comma-separated list of components
+(since dpkg 1.18.5).
+
+The allowed values are:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B source
+Upload the source package.
+.TP
+.B any
+Upload the architecture specific binary packages.
+.TP
+.B all
+Upload the architecture independent binary packages.
+.TP
+.B binary
+Upload the architecture specific and independent binary packages.
+This is an alias for \fBany,all\fP.
+.TP
+.B full
+Upload everything.
+This is alias for \fBsource,any,all\fP, and the same as the default case
+when no build option is specified.
+.RE
+.TP
+.B \-g
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-build=source,all\fP (since dpkg 1.17.11).
+.TP
+.B \-G
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-build=source,any\fP (since dpkg 1.17.11).
+.TP
+.B \-b
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-build=binary\fP or \fB\-\-build=any,all\fP.
+.TP
+.B \-B
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-build=any\fP.
+.TP
+.B \-A
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-build=all\fP.
+.TP
+.B \-S
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-build=source\fP.
+.PP
+The \fB\-s\fP\fIx\fP options control whether the original source archive is
+included in the upload if any source is being generated (i.e.
+.BR \-b " or " \-B
+haven't been used).
+.TP
+.B \-si
+By default, or if specified, the original source will be included only if
+the upstream version number (the version without epoch and without Debian
+revision) differs from the upstream version number of the previous
+changelog entry.
+.TP
+.B \-sa
+Forces the inclusion of the original source.
+.TP
+.B \-sd
+Forces the exclusion of the original source and includes only the diff.
+.fi
+.TP
+.BI \-v version
+Causes changelog information from all versions strictly later than
+.I version
+to be used.
+.TP
+.BI \-C changes-description
+Read the description of the changes from the file
+.I changes-description
+rather than using the information from the source tree's changelog
+file.
+.TP
+.BI \-m maintainer-address
+Use
+.I maintainer-address
+as the name and email address of the maintainer for this package,
+rather than using the information from the source tree's control file.
+.TP
+.BI \-e maintainer-address
+Use
+.I maintainer-address
+as the name and email address of the maintainer for this upload,
+rather than using the information from the source tree's changelog.
+.TP
+.BI \-V name = value
+Set an output substitution variable.
+See \fBdeb\-substvars\fP(5) for a discussion of output substitution.
+.TP
+.BI \-T substvars-file
+Read substitution variables in
+.IR substvars-file ;
+the default is
+.BR debian/substvars .
+No variable substitution is done on any of the fields that are output,
+except for the contents extracted from each binary package \fBDescription\fP
+field (since dpkg 1.19.0), however the special variable \fIFormat\fR will
+override the field of the same name.
+This option can be used multiple times to read substitution
+variables from multiple files (since dpkg 1.15.6).
+
+.TP
+.BI \-D field = value
+Override or add an output control file field.
+.TP
+.BI \-U field
+Remove an output control file field.
+.TP
+.BI \-c controlfile
+Specifies the main source control file to read information from. The
+default is
+.BR debian/control .
+.TP
+.BI \-l changelog-file
+Specifies the changelog file to read information from. The
+default is
+.BR debian/changelog .
+.TP
+.BI \-f files-list-file
+Read the list of files to be uploaded here, rather than using
+.BR debian/files .
+.TP
+.BI \-F changelog-format
+Specifies the format of the changelog. See \fBdpkg\-parsechangelog\fP(1)
+for information about alternative formats.
+.TP
+.BI \-u upload-files-dir
+Look for the files to be uploaded in
+.I upload-files-dir
+rather than
+.B ..
+.RB ( dpkg\-genchanges
+needs to find these files so that it can include their sizes and
+checksums in the
+.B .changes
+file).
+.TP
+.B \-q
+Usually
+.B dpkg\-genchanges
+will produce informative messages on standard error, for example about
+how many of the package's source files are being uploaded.
+.B \-q
+suppresses these messages.
+.TP
+.BR \-O [\fIfilename\fP]
+Print the changes file to standard output (the default) or to \fIfilename\fP
+if specified (since dpkg 1.18.5).
+.TP
+.BR \-? ", " \-\-help
+Show the usage message and exit.
+.TP
+.BR \-\-version
+Show the version and exit.
+.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.TP
+.B DPKG_COLORS
+Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).
+The currently accepted values are: \fBauto\fP (default), \fBalways\fP and
+\fBnever\fP.
+.TP
+.B DPKG_NLS
+If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language Support,
+also known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0).
+The accepted values are: \fB0\fP and \fB1\fP (default).
+.
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.B debian/files
+The list of generated files which are part of the upload being
+prepared.
+.B dpkg\-genchanges
+reads the data here when producing a
+.B .changes
+file.
+.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.ad l
+.BR deb\-substvars (5),
+.BR deb\-src\-control (5),
+.BR deb\-src\-files (5),
+.BR deb\-changelog (5),
+.BR deb\-changes (5).