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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 [wget]
 - 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]
 - tagpending: shell script which runs from a Debian source tree and tags
   bugs that are to be closed in the latest changelog as pending.
   [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.

Project information

Maintainer:
devscripts developers
Driver:
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Licence:
GNU GPL v2

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