DCH-REPEAT(1)

💖 DCH-REPEAT 💖

okay bestie, so like… dch-repeat is a lil tool from the ubuntu-dev-tools crew and its whole thing is repeating a changelog entry into an older release. that's it. that's the job. slay. ✨

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

dch-repeat --build-tree <PATH>
dch-repeat --source-release <RELEASE>
dch-repeat --target-release <RELEASE>
dch-repeat --devel-release <RELEASE>
dch-repeat --pocket <POCKET>
dch-repeat -h

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — dch-repeat is used to repeat a changelog into an older release. it literally just does that.

it expects that --build-tree is laid out with each Ubuntu release as a separate directory, like "feisty", "edgy", etc. yes. one folder per release. that's the vibe. 💅

for example (and this is the canonical example, i'm not making this up): if gimp had a security update prepared for Feisty in $TREE/feisty/gimp-2.2.13, running dch-repeat in $TREE/edgy/gimp-2.2.13 would pull in the latest changelog from the Feisty build. iconic behavior tbh 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

listed below are the command line options for dch-repeat — every single one, no skips, no cap:

• -h or --help — display a help message and exit. classic. 🫶
• --build-tree PATH — base of build trees. default is /scratch/ubuntu/build. 🏠
• -s or --source-release RELEASE — which release to take changelog from. the source, bestie, the origin story 💫
• --target-release RELEASE — which release to build into. 🎯
• --devel-release RELEASE — which release is the development release. 🛠️
• --pocket POCKET — which pocket to use. 👖 (jk it's not that kind of pocket but the name is fun)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

dch-repeat was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>. 💜

this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>. 💙

both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. fr fr, that's the license, respect it. 📜

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• dch(1).

okay that's the whole page, you ate it up, no notes 💅✨ this was ubuntu-dev-tools, version date 10 August 2008 — mwah, go forth and repeat those changelogs bestie 🎀🦋