debc

SYNOPSIS
       debc [options] [changes file] [package ...]

DESCRIPTION
       debc figures out the current version of a package and displays informa-
       tion about the .deb and .udeb files which have been  generated  in  the
       current  build process.  If a .changes file is specified on the command
       line, the filename must end with .changes, as this is how  the  program
       distinguishes  it  from  package  names.   If  not, then debc has to be
       called from within the source code directory tree.  In  this  case,  it
       will  look  for  the .changes file corresponding to the current package
       version (by determining the name and version number from the changelog,
       and the architecture in the same way as dpkg-buildpackage(1) does).  It
       then runs dpkg-deb -I and dpkg-deb -c on every .deb and  .udeb  archive
       listed  in  the .changes file to display information about the contents
       of the .deb / .udeb files.  It precedes every .deb or .udeb  file  with
       the name of the file.  It assumes that all of the .deb / .udeb archives
       live  in the same directory as the .changes file.   It  is  useful  for
       ensuring that the expected files have ended up in the Debian package.

       If  a  list  of  packages is given on the command line, then only those
       debs or udebs with names in this list of packages will be processed.

Directory name checking
       In common with several other scripts in the  devscripts  package,  debc
       will  climb  the directory tree until it finds a debian/changelog file.
       As a safeguard against stray files causing potential problems, it  will
       examine   the   name   of  the  parent  directory  once  it  finds  the
       debian/changelog file, and check that the directory name corresponds to
       the package name.  Precisely how it does this is controlled by two con-
       figuration   file    variables    DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL    and
       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX,  and  their  corresponding command-line
       options --check-dirname-level and --check-dirname-regex.

       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL can take the following values:

       0      Never check the directory name.

       1      Only check the directory name if we have had to change directory
              in  our search for debian/changelog.  This is the default behav-
              iour.

       2      Always check the directory name.

       The directory name is checked by testing whether the current  directory
       name  (as determined by pwd(1)) matches the regex given by the configu-
       ration file option DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX  or  by  the  command
       line  option  --check-dirname-regex  regex.  Here regex is a Perl regex
       (see perlre(3perl)), which will be anchored at the  beginning  and  the
       end.   If  regex  contains a '/', then it must match the full directory
       path.  If not, then it must match the full directory  name.   If  regex
       contains  the  string  'PACKAGE',  this  will be replaced by the source
       package name, as determined from the changelog.  The default value  for
              instead of the parent of  the  source  directory.   This  should
              either  be an absolute path or relative to the top of the source
              directory.

       --check-dirname-level N
              See the above section "Directory name checking" for an  explana-
              tion of this option.

       --check-dirname-regex regex
              See  the above section "Directory name checking" for an explana-
              tion of this option.

       --no-conf, --noconf
              Do not read any configuration files.  This can only be  used  as
              the first option given on the command-line.

       --help, --version
              Show help message and version information respectively.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       The  two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
       sourced in that order to set  configuration  variables.   Command  line
       options  can be used to override configuration file settings.  Environ-
       ment variable settings are ignored for  this  purpose.   The  currently
       recognised variables are:

       DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR
              This  specifies the directory in which to look for the .changes,
              .deb and .udeb files, and is either an absolute path or relative
              to  the  top  of  the  source  tree.   This  corresponds  to the
              --debs-dir command line option.  This directive could  be  used,
              for  example,  if you always use pbuilder or svn-buildpackage to
              build your packages.  Note that it also affects debrelease(1) in
              the same way, hence the strange name of the option.

       DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL, DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX
              See  the above section "Directory name checking" for an explana-
              tion of these variables.  Note that these are package-wide  con-
              figuration  variables,  and will therefore affect all devscripts
              scripts which check their value, as described in  their  respec-
              tive manpages and in devscripts.conf(5).

SEE ALSO
       dpkg-deb(1), debdiff(1) and devscripts.conf(5).

AUTHOR
       Julian   Gilbey  <jdg@debian.org>,  based  on  an  original  script  by
       Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>.



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