dpkg-gencontrol - generate Debian control files
dpkg-gencontrol [option...]
dpkg-gencontrol reads information from an unpacked Debian
source tree and generates a binary package control file (which defaults to
debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control); during this process it will simplify the
relation fields.
Thus Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends and
Suggests are simplified in this order by removing dependencies which
are known to be true according to the stronger dependencies already parsed.
It will also remove any self-dependency (in fact it will remove any
dependency which evaluates to true given the current version of the package
as installed). Logically it keeps the intersection of multiple dependencies
on the same package. The order of dependencies is preserved as best as
possible: if any dependency must be discarded due to another dependency
appearing further in the field, the superseding dependency will take the
place of the discarded one.
The other relation fields (Enhances, Conflicts,
Breaks, Replaces and Provides) are also simplified
individually by computing the union of the various dependencies when a
package is listed multiple times in the field.
dpkg-gencontrol also adds an entry for the binary package
to debian/files.
- -vversion
- Sets the version number of the binary package which will be
generated.
- -Vname=value
- Set an output substitution variable. See deb-substvars(5) for
discussion of output substitution.
- -Tsubstvars-file
- Read substitution variables in substvars-file; the default is
debian/substvars. This option can be used multiple times to read
substitution variables from multiple files (since dpkg 1.15.6).
- -Dfield=value
- Override or add an output control file field.
- -Ufield
- Remove an output control file field.
- -ccontrol-file
- Specifies the main source control file to read information from. The
default is debian/control.
- -lchangelog-file
- Specifies the changelog file to read information from. The default is
debian/changelog.
- -ffiles-list-file
- Read or write the list of files to be uploaded here, rather than using
debian/files.
- -Fchangelog-format
- Specifies the format of the changelog. See dpkg-parsechangelog(1)
for information about alternative formats.
- -ppackage
- Generate information for the binary package package. If the source
control file lists only one binary package then this option may be
omitted; otherwise it is essential to select which binary package's
information to generate.
- -nfilename
- Assume the filename of the package will be filename instead of the
normal package_version_arch.deb filename.
- -is, -ip,
-isp
- These options are ignored for compatibility with older versions of the
dpkg build scripts but are now deprecated. Previously they were used to
tell dpkg-gencontrol to include the Section and Priority fields in
the control file. This is now the default behaviour. If you want to get
the old behaviour you can use the -U option to delete the fields
from the control file.
- -Ppackage-build-dir
- Tells dpkg-source that the package is being built in
package-build-dir instead of debian/tmp. This value is used
to find the default value of the Installed-Size substitution
variable and control file field (using du), and for the default
location of the output file.
- -O[filename]
- Print the control file to standard output (or filename if
specified, since dpkg 1.17.2), rather than to
debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control (or
package-build-dir/DEBIAN/control if -P was
used).
- -?, --help
- Show the usage message and exit.
- --version
- Show the version and exit.
- DPKG_COLORS
- Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently accepted values
are: auto (default), always and never.
- DPKG_NLS
- If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language
Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg
1.19.0). The accepted values are: 0 and 1 (default).
- debian/control
- The main source control information file, giving version-independent
information about the source package and the binary packages it can
produce.
- debian/files
- The list of generated files which are part of the upload being prepared.
dpkg-gencontrol adds the presumed filenames of binary packages
whose control files it generates here.