Joey's Tools: Stable Releases


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debian-prepare-update

This program builds the preparation pages and files from the underlying data. It is executed via a Makefile and not directly.

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elmo

This program is similar to James' madison but enhanced in many ways. In my opinion the output is nicer, but that's just minor. It can be parametrised much more and has some nice features as listing all packages in a given distribution and stuff. It is used to build the underlying data for the preparation pages. It is useful for other developers as well and provides a comprehensive help screen.

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difftar

This is just a wrapper around diff -Nurp, but will work where interdiff will fail since two Debian native packages need to be compared. This helps a lot.

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diffpackages

This program is a wrapper for interdiff, difftar and debdiff in order to provide a report the changes between two sets of packages. It can cope with source files, Debian packages and even .changes files (preferred use). It helps locate missing dependencies, dirty patches and the like. It will diff against the proper distribution, i.e. again ststable or against security if it's available.


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debian-check-update
This program is run after packages have been installed moved from
the proposed-updates distribution into the stable distribution. It
will read the underlying data for the preparation and compare it to
the actual contents of the database. It is supposed to discover
inconsistencies.
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dpkg-grabfiles
This program reads an arbitrary amount of .changes
files and queries the security database for the location of the
corresponding files. It helps me with re-uploading security updates
to the main archives. This needs to be done manually if either the
security officer forgets to hit 'y' for uploading or when the katie
suite fails to upload the files.
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