revu-orig - Debian packages reviewing tool
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Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Raphaël Pinson.
This manual page was written by Raphaël Pinson <<raphink@ubuntu.com>> for the Debian system (but may be
used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Founda‐
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On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/com‐mon-licenses/GPL.
2005-02-08 revu-orig(1)
Description
Debian packages reviewing tool.
revu-orig is a reviewing tool from the revu-tools package, aimed to helping reviewers of Debian packages
in their task. revu-orig achieves a series of tests comparing the upstream tarball with the orig.tar.gz
file. It returns a series of reports in the current folder that can be used by revu-report to generate a
full report. revu-orig is currently able to use debian/watch files to detect new upstream versions of the
program and download the current upstream tarball to achieve the tests. It also detects Debian-native
packages.
Among the informations revu-orig gives are:
• Whether the package is a Debian-native ;
• Whether the package contains a usable debian/watch file ;
• Whether new versions of the program are available, using the debian/watch file with uscan ;
• Whether the md5 sums of the upstream tarball and the orig.tar.gz are identical, and whether this is
normal or not ;
• Whether there is a diff between the extracted upstream tarball and orig.tar.gz.
Name
revu-orig - Debian packages reviewing tool
Options
--help|-h
Show informations about the program and the usage.
upstreamtarball
Indicate what file to use as upstream tarball. This is optional since revu-orig can download the
upstream tarball using debian/watch and/or detect its presence automatically in the folder.
dscfile
Indicate what dsc file to use. This is optional since revu-orig can detect the dsc file automati‐
cally in the folder. Note that this argument can only be given if the tarball was given as first
one.
Synopsis
revu-orig [ --help|-h ] [ upstreamtarball [ dscfile ] ]
