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.TH SYNCPACKAGE "1" "15 April 2008" "ubuntu-dev-tools"
.SH NAME
syncpackage \- helper to prepare .changes file to upload synced packages
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B syncpacage\fR \fB<.dsc file>\fR \fB<target release>\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBsyncpackage\fR generates a changes file to be directly uploaded to Ubuntu
primary archive or PPA starting from a pristine Debian package.
.PP
\fBsyncpackage\fR allows you to upload files with the same checksums of the
Debian ones, as the common script used by Ubuntu archive administrators does,
this way you can preserve source files integrity between the two distributions.
.SH OPTIONS
.B <.dsc file>
This is the .dsc file to generate .changes file against.
.TP
.B <target release>
This is the release that you would like the source package to be synced into.
This should always be the latest development release of Ubuntu.
.SH AUTHOR
.B requestsync
This manual page were written by Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@ubuntu.com>
.PP
It is released under GNU General Public License, version 3.