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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))   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)), 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     If this option is used, or the default .changes file is not found  but  a  source-only
              .changes file is present, then this source-only .changes file will be uploaded instead
              of an arch-specific one.

       -adebian-architecture, -tGNU-system-type
              See  dpkg-architecture(1)  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) and debi(1).

       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).

SEE ALSO
       dput(1), dupload(1), devscripts.conf(5)

AUTHOR
       Julian  Gilbey  <jdg AT debian.org>,  based  on the original release script by Christoph Lameter
       <clameter AT debian.org>.

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