debianize(1)

generate a Debian directory for a package

Section 1 lintian-brush bookworm source

Description

debianize

NAME

debianize - generate a Debian directory for a package

SYNOPSIS

debianize

DESCRIPTION

This experimental command gathers information about a package and generates skeleton Debian control files for it. It will fill in the fields for which it can find a reasonable value, and leave the other fields unset.

Most of the heavy-lifting is done by the scripts that power lintian-brush(1).

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--no-update-changelog

Whether to update the changelog.

--version

show program’s version number and exit

--verbose

Print list of fixers that was run and print tracebacks for failed fixers.

SEE ALSO

lintian-brush.conf(5) lintian-brush(1)

AUTHORS

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>