DEB-VCS-PUBLISH(1)

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💖 DEB-VCS-PUBLISH 💖

okay bestie, so this is deb-vcs-publish, a little user command that literally takes your Debian package and yeets it into its VCS repo. it's giving "automation but make it cute". 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

deb-vcs-publish — publish a Debian package to its VCS repository 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

deb-vcs-publish [OPTIONS] [URL]

like, options first, URL optional, you got this 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — deb-vcs-publish does a whole little glow-up routine:

  • it updates the Vcs-Git/Vcs-Browser fields in debian/control based on where your repository is actually hosted 🏠
  • it creates the remote repository if it does not exist yet (no cap, it'll set it up for you)
  • and then it pushes the current branch to it 🚀

periodt. that's the whole vibe.

🌸 positional arguments 🌸

  • URL — the URL of the VCS repository you wanna publish to 🫶 and if you don't specify it? no stress, it gets derived from the existing Vcs-* fields in debian/control. iconic behaviour honestly.

🌈 optional arguments 🌈

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. classic. 💅
  • -V, --version — show the program's version number and exit. main character energy ⭐
  • -d, --directory DIR — the directory to run in. defaults to the current directory, so like, you can just stay where you are 📁
  • --no-create — do not create the remote repository if it does not exist. like, don't be doing all that 🙈
  • --force — overwrite existing Vcs-* fields in debian/control. yes bestie, it will absolutely bulldoze them for you 💥
  • --debug — enable debug output. for when you're chronically nosy, we love that 🔍
  • --identity — print the user identity that would be used when committing. lowkey a vibe check on your git config 👑
heads up: --no-create means if the remote repo isn't there, it stays not there. fr fr, no repo appears out of nowhere.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHORS ✨

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> — king behaviour 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, go publish something slay 💖✨

this was deb-vcs-publish, user commands energy, dated February 2026 🌸 — mwah, take care of your repos 🫶

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