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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). |