DEBCI(1)

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💖 DEBCI — Debian Continuous Integration 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the main character of the whole debci situation ✨

debci COMMAND [OPTIONS] [ARGUMENTS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so debci is literally the main entry point for all the debci programs, no cap. 💅 Most of the commands in here are meant to be run by the debci system itself — like, it's doing its own thing behind the scenes, iykyk. BUT there are a few commands that are actually useful for us regular users, and those are the ones listed below. 🫶

  • debci setup [OPTIONS] — this one sets up a test bed for running local tests. ✨ heads up though: for most of the backends, you should usually run this as root. it's giving very "needs permission" energy, fr fr.
  • debci localtest [OPTIONS] SOURCEPACKAGE [BINARY ...] — runs the tests from SOURCEPACKAGE, in exactly the same way they would be ran on ci.debian.net. like, same vibe, same energy. 🎀

SOURCEPACKAGE can be a source package name, a local .dsc file, a local .changes file, a local unpacked source package directory, or honestly anything else that autopkgtest(1) would take as a source package. it's very flexible, we love that for it. 🌈

you can also pass any quantity of BINARY packages and they'll be used in the test too. any quantity!! go off. 👑

✨ COMMON OPTIONS ✨

these options apply to every single debci command, so like, universal queens. 💜

  • -c DIR, --config DIR — uses DIR as the debci configuration directory. that's where the config lives, periodt. 🌸
  • -a ARCH, --arch ARCH — selects the architecture to run tests for. the default is the host architecture (so like, whatever machine you're on, bestie).
  • -b BACKEND, --backend BACKEND — selects the backends to run tests on. default is lxc. 🧚
  • -s SUITE, --suite SUITE — selects the suite to run tests for. default is unstable, because we're all a little unstable sometimes, lowkey. 😭
  • -d DIR, --data-dir DIR — the directory in which debci will store its data, and where it will read from. so it's giving both write and read, versatile icon. ⭐
  • --amqp amqp://[user:password@]hostname[:port] — the AMQP server to connect to. default is amqp://localhost. 🦋
  • -q, --quiet — prevents debci from producing any output on stdout. errors and warnings will still be sent to stderr though, so it's not fully quiet, bestie, don't be fooled. 💀
  • --help — displays usage information. the classic. the icon. your bestie when you're lost. 🙈

💫 SEE ALSO

Copyright © the debci development team. for all the deets on authorship, go peek at the git repository at https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debci/ — the receipts are all there, fr fr. 📚

debci is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. slay, freedom. 🕊️

so yeah, that's the whole page, bestie — this version is from 2026-09-05</>, and yes, it's the DEBCI(1) manual page. go run some tests, you're gonna eat. 💅✨🎀

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