dpkg-genchanges

Causes changelog information from all versions strictly later than version to be used.

Read the description of the changes from the file changesdescription rather than using the information from the source tree's changelog file.

Use maintaineraddress as the name and email address of the maintainer for this package, rather than using the information from the source tree's control file.

Use maintaineraddress as the name and email address of the maintainer for this upload, rather than using the information from the source tree's changelog.

These options control whether the original source archive is included in the upload generated by R dpkg-genchanges if any source is being generated (i.e., R -b or -B haven't been used). By default, or if -si is specified, the original source will be included if the version number ends in R -0 or -1 , i.e. if the Debian revision part of the version number is R 0 or 1 . -sa forces the inclusion of the original source; -sd forces its exclusion and includes only the diff.

Set an output substitution variable. See deb-substvars(5) for a discussion of output substitution.

Read substitution variables in R substvarsfile ; the default is R debian/substvars .

Override or add an output control file field.

Remove an output control file field.

For R dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage R -b and -B specify that a binary-only build is taking place. -b indicates that no source files are to be built and/or distributed, and -B that no architecture-independent binary package files are to be distributed either. -S specifies that only the source should be uploaded and no binary packages need to be made. The distinction between R -b and -B is only used by R dpkg-buildpackage ; dpkg-genchanges just produces a .changes file for whatever files were produced by the binary-* target(s) of the package being built.

Specifies the main source control file to read information from. The default is R debian/control .

Specifies the change log file to read information from. The default is R debian/changelog .

Read the list of files to be uploaded here, rather than using R debian/files .

Specifies the format of the changelog. By default the format is read from a special line near the bottom of the changelog or failing that defaults to the debian standard format.

Look for the files to be uploaded in uploadfilesdir rather than .. (dpkg-genchanges needs to find these files so that it can include their sizes and checksums in the .changes file).

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.

Show the usage message and exit.

Show the version and exit. .

The list of generated files which are part of the upload being prepared. dpkg-genchanges reads the data here when producing a .changes file. .