diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 46256bc..d7dfa62 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +ubuntu-dev-tools (0.9) gutsy; urgency=low + + * Added submittodebian.1 + + -- Soren Hansen Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:38:49 +0200 + ubuntu-dev-tools (0.8) gutsy; urgency=low * Renamed revuput to ppaput. diff --git a/doc/submittodebian.1 b/doc/submittodebian.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e753ffe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/submittodebian.1 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.TH SUBMITTODEBIAN 1 "Sep 2007" +.SH NAME +submittodebian \- submit changes in Debian source tree to Debian +.SH DESCRIPTION +This manual page documents briefly the +.B submittodebian +command. +.PP +.B submittodebian +was created to help bridge a gap between Debian and Ubuntu, namely by making it trivially easy to submit your changes to a Debian package to the Debian bts. +.PP +It expects to find the .dsc and diff.gz of the current version (which you likely just created) and the previous one in the parent directory. By examining debian/changelog it will extract the information it needs to: +.PP +1. Extract the debdiff containing your changes. +.PP +2. Open the debdiff in your $EDITOR so that you can remove any Ubuntu specific changes. +.PP +3. Extract your changelog entry so that you can create a bug report from it. +.PP +4. Start reportbug with the debdiff attached and with the text of the changelog entry. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR reportbug (1). +.br +.SH AUTHOR +submittodebian and this man page was written by Soren Hansen .