NAME¶
dpkg-genchanges - generate Debian .changes files
SYNOPSIS¶
dpkg-genchanges [
option...]
DESCRIPTION¶
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 (
.changes file).
OPTIONS¶
- -g
- Specifies that only source and architecture independent packages should be
uploaded (no architecture specific packages will be included).
- -G
- Specifies that only source and architecture specific packages should be
uploaded (no architecture independent packages will be included).
- -b, -B, -A
- Specifies that a binary-only build is taking place (no source files are to
be included). There's no distinction between -b, -B and
-A, the produced .changes file will include whatever files
were created by the binary-* target(s) of the package being
built.
- -S
- Specifies that only the source should be uploaded (no binary packages will
be included).
The
-sx options control whether the original source archive is
included in the upload if any source is being generated (i.e.
-b or
-B haven't been used).
- -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.
- -sa
- Forces the inclusion of the original source.
- -sd
- Forces the exclusion of the original source and includes only the diff.
- -vversion
- Causes changelog information from all versions strictly later than
version to be used.
- -Cchanges-description
- Read the description of the changes from the file
changes-description rather than using the information from the
source tree's changelog file.
- -mmaintainer-address
- Use 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.
- -emaintainer-address
- Use 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.
- -Vname=value
- Set an output substitution variable. See deb-substvars(5) for a
discussion of output substitution.
- -Tsubstvars-file
- Read substitution variables in substvars-file; the default is
debian/substvars. No variable substitution is done on any of the
fields that are output, however the special variable Format will
override the field of the same name. This option can be used multiple
times to read substitution variables from multiple files.
- -Dfield=value
- Override or add an output control file field.
- -Ufield
- Remove an output control file field.
- -ccontrolfile
- Specifies the main source control file to read information from. The
default is debian/control.
- -lchangelog-file
- Specifies the changelog file to read information from. The default is
debian/changelog.
- -ffiles-list-file
- Read the list of files to be uploaded here, rather than using
debian/files.
- -Fchangelog-format
- Specifies the format of the changelog. See dpkg-parsechangelog(1)
for information about alternative formats.
- -uupload-files-dir
- Look for the files to be uploaded in upload-files-dir rather than
.. (dpkg-genchanges needs to find these files so that it can
include their sizes and checksums in the .changes file).
- -q
- Usually dpkg-genchanges will produce informative messages on
standard error, for example about how many of the package's source files
are being uploaded. -q suppresses these messages.
- -?, --help
- Show the usage message and exit.
- --version
- Show the version and exit.
FILES¶
- debian/files
- The list of generated files which are part of the upload being prepared.
dpkg-genchanges reads the data here when producing a
.changes file.