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[ Source: devscripts  ]

Package: devscripts (2.9.10-0ubuntu0.1) [security]

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainers (usually from Debian):

  • Julian Gilbey
  • Joshua Kwan
  • Filippo Giunchedi
  • Joey Hess

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier

Contains the following scripts, dependencies/recommendations shown in brackets afterwards: 

 - annotate-output: run a command and prepend time and stream (O for stdout,
     E for stderr) for every line of output
 - archpath: print tla/Bazaar package names [tla | bazaar]
 - 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]
 - dd-list: given a list of packages, pretty-print it ordered by maintainer
 - 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]
 - debcommit: commit changes to cvs or svn, basing commit message on
     changelog [cvs | subversion]
 - 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]
 - deb-reversion: increases a binary package version number and repacks the
     archive
 - 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]
 - svnpath: print svn repository paths [subversion]
 - 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]
 - whodepends: check which maintainers' packages depend on a package
 - 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.

Other Packages Related to devscripts

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: debianutils (>= 2.0)
    Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
  • dep: dpkg-dev
    package building tools for Debian
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: perl (>= 5.8)
    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
  • dep: sed (>= 2.95)
    The GNU sed stream editor
  • rec: fakeroot
    Gives a fake root environment

Download devscripts

Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 289.2 kB952 kB [list of files]
i386 288.9 kB948 kB [list of files]
powerpc 291.4 kB952 kB [list of files]