SUBMITTODEBIAN(1)

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💅 SUBMITTODEBIAN 💅

okay bestie, welcome to section 1 of the manual — the General Commands Manual — and today's main character is submittodebian. she's here, she's iconic, let's get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

submittodebian — submit changes in a Debian source tree to Debian 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

submittodebian

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she just goes. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page is documenting submittodebian briefly — like, the sparknotes version, but make it cute.

submittodebian was literally created to help bridge a gap between Debian and Ubuntu. the whole mission? making it trivially easy to submit your changes to a Debian package to the Debian bug tracking system. no cap. 🔥

here's the vibe check on what she expects to find: the .dsc and diff.gz of the current version (which you probably just created, bestie, we see you) and the one from the previous version, both chilling in the parent directory. 📂

then, by examining debian/changelog, she'll extract everything she needs in order to:

  1. Extract the debdiff containing your changes. ✨
  2. Open the debdiff in your $EDITOR so that you can remove any Ubuntu specific changes. 👀
  3. Extract your changelog entry so that you can create a bug report from it. 📝
  4. Start reportbug with the debdiff attached and with the text of the changelog entry. 🚀

like... she does the whole thing for you. main character energy fr fr. 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

submittodebian and this man page were written by Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>. 🫶

both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. periodt. 💅

and that's the whole thing, bestie!! this masterpiece shipped as part of ubuntu-dev-tools, dated Dec 2007 🌈 — yeah, she's vintage, she's a classic, she's the moment. mwah. 💋🎀

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