NAME¶
mk-origtargz - rename upstream tarball, optionally changing the compression and
removing unwanted files
SYNOPSIS¶
- mk-origtargz [options] foo-1.0.tar.gz
- mk-origtargz --help
DESCRIPTION¶
mk-origtargz renames the given file to match what is expected by
dpkg-buildpackage, based on the source package name and version in
debian/changelog. It can convert
zip to
tar, optionally
change the compression scheme and remove files according to
Files-Excluded in
debian/copyright. The resulting file is placed
in
debian/../...
If the package name is given via the
--package option, no information is
read from
debian/, and the result file is placed in the current
directory.
mk-origtargz is commonly called via
uscan, which first obtains the
upstream tarball.
OPTIONS¶
The following options extend or replace information taken from
debian/.
- --package package
- Use package as the name of the Debian source package, and do not
require or use a debian/ directory. This option can only be used
together with --version.
The default is to use the package name of the first entry in
debian/changelog.
- -v, --version version
- Use version as the version of the package. This needs to be the
upstream version portion of a full Debian version, i.e. no Debian
revision, no epoch.
The default is to use the upstream portion of the version of the first entry
in debian/changelog.
- --exclude-file glob
- Remove files matching the given glob from the tarball, as if it was
listed in Files-Excluded.
- --copyright-file filename
- Remove files matching the patterns found in filename, which should
have the format of a Debian copyright file (Format:
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ to
be precise). Errors parsing that file are silently ignored, exactly as it
is the case with debian/copyright.
Both the --exclude-file and --copyright-file options amend the
list of patterns found in debian/copyright. If you do not want to
read that file, you will have to use --package.
Action options¶
These options specify what exactly
mk-origtargz should do. The options
--copy,
--rename and
--symlink are mutually exclusive.
- --symlink
- Make the resulting file a symlink to the given original file. (This is the
default behaviour.)
If the file has to be modified (because it is a zip file, because of
--repack or Files-Excluded), this option behaves like
--copy.
- --copy
- Make the resulting file a copy of the original file (unless it has to be
modified, of course).
- --rename
- Rename the original file.
If the file has to be modified (because it is a zip file, because of
--repack or Files-Excluded), this implies that the original
file is deleted afterwards.
- --repack
- If the given file is not compressed using the desired format (see
--compression), recompress it.
- -S, --repack-suffix suffix
- If the file has to be modified, because of Files-Excluded, append
suffix to the upstream version.
- --compression [ gzip | bzip2 | lzma |
xz ]
- If --repack is used, or if the given file is a zip file,
ensure that the resulting file is compressed using the given scheme. The
default is gzip.
- -C, --directory directory
- Put the resulting file in the given directory.
SEE ALSO¶
uscan(1),
uupdate(1)
AUTHOR¶
mk-origtargz and this manpage have been written by Joachim Breitner <
nomeata@debian.org>.
