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.TH SUBMITTODEBIAN 1 "Dec 2007" "ubuntu-dev-tools"
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.SH NAME
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submittodebian \- submit changes in Debian source tree to Debian
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B submittodebian
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This manual page documents briefly the
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.B submittodebian
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command.
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.PP
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.B submittodebian
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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 bug tracking system.
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.PP
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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.
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By examining debian/changelog it will extract the information it needs to:
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.PP
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1. Extract the debdiff containing your changes.
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2. Open the debdiff in your $EDITOR so that you can remove any Ubuntu specific changes.
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.PP
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3. Extract your changelog entry so that you can create a bug report from it.
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.PP
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4. Start reportbug with the debdiff attached and with the text of the changelog entry.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR reportbug (1).
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.br
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.SH AUTHOR
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submittodebian and this man page were written by Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>.
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Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
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