# phpman > man > DEBRELEASE(1) [DEBRELEASE(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/DEBRELEASE/1/markdown) General Commands Manual [DEBRELEASE(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/DEBRELEASE/1/markdown) ## NAME debrelease - a wrapper around dupload or dput ## SYNOPSIS **debrelease** [_debrelease_ _options_] [_dupload/dput_ _options_] ## DESCRIPTION **debrelease** is a simple wrapper around **dupload** or **dput**. It is called from within the source code tree of a package, and figures out the current version of a package. It then looks for the corresponding _.changes_ file (which lists the files needed to upload in order to release the package) in the parent directory of the source code tree and calls **dupload** or **dput** with the _.changes_ file as parameter in order to perform the actual uploading. Options may be given to **debrelease**; except for the ones listed below, they are passed on un‐ changed to **dupload** or **dput**. The **devscripts** configuration files are also read by **debrelease** as described below. ### Directory name checking In common with several other scripts in the **devscripts** package, **debrelease** will climb the di‐ rectory 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 configuration file variables **DE**‐‐ **VSCRIPTS**___**CHECK**___**DIRNAME**___**LEVEL** and **DEVSCRIPTS**___**CHECK**___**DIRNAME**___**REGEX**, and their corresponding com‐ mand-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 _de__‐ _bian/changelog_. This is the default behaviour. **2** Always check the directory name. The directory name is checked by testing whether the current directory name (as determined by [**pwd**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pwd/1/markdown)) matches the regex given by the configuration file option **DE**‐‐ **VSCRIPTS**___**CHECK**___**DIRNAME**___**REGEX** or by the command line option **--check-dirname-regex** _regex_. Here _regex_ is a Perl regex (see [**perlre**(3perl)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/perlre/3perl/markdown)), 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 re‐ placed by the source package name, as determined from the changelog. The default value for the regex is: ´PACKAGE(-.+)?', thus matching directory names such as PACKAGE and PACKAGE-ver‐ sion. ## OPTIONS **--dupload**, **--dput** This specifies which uploader program to use; the default is **dupload**. ### -S _.changes_ file is present, then this source-only _.changes_ file will be uploaded instead of an arch-specific one. ### -a -t See [**dpkg-architecture**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dpkg-architecture/1/markdown) for a description of these options. They affect the search for the _.changes_ file. They are provided to mimic the behaviour of **dpkg-buildpackage** when determining the name of the _.changes_ file. If a plain **-t** is given, it is taken to be the **dupload** host-specifying option, and therefore signifies the end of the **de**‐‐ **brelease**-specific options. ### --multi Multiarch _.changes_ mode: This signifies that **debrelease** should use the most recent file with the name pattern _package_version_*+*.changes_ as the _.changes_ file, allowing for the _.changes_ files produced by **dpkg-cross**. **--debs-dir** _directory_ Look for the _.changes_ and _.deb_ files in _directory_ 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 explanation of this option. **--check-dirname-regex** _regex_ See the above section **Directory** **name** **checking** for an explanation 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**, **-h** Display a help message and exit successfully. ### --version Display version and copyright information and exit successfully. ## 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. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. The currently recognised variables are: **DEBRELEASE**___**UPLOADER** The currently recognised values are _dupload_ and _dput_, and it specifies which uploader program should be used. It corresponds to the **--dupload** and **--dput** command line op‐ tions. **DEBRELEASE**___**DEBS**___**DIR** This specifies the directory in which to look for the _.changes_ and _.deb_ 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 [**debc**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/debc/1/markdown) and [**debi**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/debi/1/markdown). **DEVSCRIPTS**___**CHECK**___**DIRNAME**___**LEVEL**, **DEVSCRIPTS**___**CHECK**___**DIRNAME**___**REGEX** See the above section **Directory** **name** **checking** for an explanation of these variables. Note that these are package-wide configuration variables, and will therefore affect all **devscripts** scripts which check their value, as described in their respective man‐ pages and in [**devscripts.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/devscripts.conf/5/markdown). ## SEE ALSO [**dput**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dput/1/markdown), [**dupload**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dupload/1/markdown), [**devscripts.conf**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/devscripts.conf/5/markdown) ## AUTHOR Julian Gilbey <>, based on the original **release** script by Christoph Lameter <>. DEBIAN Debian Utilities [DEBRELEASE(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/DEBRELEASE/1/markdown)