| PackageDescription | Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Contains the following scripts, dependencies/recommendations shown in
brackets afterwards:
- bts: a command-line tool for manipulating the BTS [www-browser,
libwww-perl, mailx]
- checkbashisms: check whether a /bin/sh script contains any common
bash-specific contructs
- cvs-debi, cvs-debc: to call debi and debc from the CVS working directory
after running cvs-debuild or cvs-buildpackage [cvs-buildpackage]
- cvs-debrelease: to call debrelease from the CVS working directory
after running cvs-debuild or cvs-buildpackage [cvs-buildpackage,
dupload | dput, ssh]
- cvs-debuild: run cvs-buildpackage using debuild (see below) as the
package building program [cvs-buildpackage, fakeroot, lintian | linda,
gnupg]
- debc: display the contents of just-built .debs
- debchange/dch: automagically add entries to debian/changelog files
[libwww-perl]
- debclean: purge a Debian source tree [fakeroot]
- debdiff: compare two versions of a Debian package to check for
added and removed files [wdiff, patchutils]
- debi: install a just-built package
- debpkg: dpkg wrapper to be able to manage/test packages without su
- debrelease: wrapper around dupload or dput [dupload | dput, ssh]
- debsign, debrsign: sign a .changes/.dsc pair without needing any of
the rest of the package to be present; can sign the pair remotely
or fetch the pair from a remote machine for signing [gnupg,
debian-keyring, ssh]
- debuild: wrapper to build a package without having to su or worry
about how to invoke dpkg to build using fakeroot. Also deals
with common environment problems, umask etc. [fakeroot,
lintian | linda, gnupg]
- dpkg-depcheck, dpkg-genbuilddeps: determine the packages used during
the build of a Debian package; useful for determining the Build-Depends
control field needed [build-essential, strace]
- dscverify: verify the integrity of a Debian package from the
.changes or .dsc files [gnupg, debian-keyring, libdigest-md5-perl]
- grep-excuses: grep the update_excuses.html file for your packages [wget]
- mergechanges: merge .changes files from a package built on different
architectures
- plotchangelog: view a nice plot of the data in a changelog file
[libtimedate-perl, gnuplot]
- rc-alert: list installed packages which have release-critical bugs [wget]
- uscan: scan upstream sites for new releases of packages [libwww-perl]
- uupdate: integrate upstream changes into a source package [patch]
- wnpp-alert: list installed packages which are orphaned or up for
adoption [wget]
Also included are a set of example mail filters for filtering mail
from Debian mailing lists using exim, procmail, etc. |