This is dch, from the Debian devscripts package, version 2.16.2ubuntu3 This code is copyright 1999-2003 by Julian Gilbey, all rights reserved. Based on code by Christoph Lameter. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

Usage: dch [options] [changelog entry] Options: -a, --append Append a new entry to the current changelog -i, --increment Increase the Debian release number, adding a new changelog entry -v <version>, --newversion=<version> Add a new changelog entry with version number specified -e, --edit Don't change version number or add a new changelog entry, just opens an editor -r, --release Update the changelog timestamp. If the distribution is set to "UNRELEASED", change it to unstable (or another distribution as specified by --distribution). --force-save-on-release When --release is used and an editor opened to allow inspection of the changelog, require the user to save the changelog their editor opened. Otherwise, the original changelog will not be modified. (default) --no-force-save-on-release Do not do so. Note that a dummy changelog entry may be supplied in order to achieve the same effect - e.g. dch --release "" The entry will not be added to the changelog but its presence will suppress the editor --create Create a new changelog (default) or NEWS file (with --news) and open for editing --empty When creating a new changelog, don't add any changes to it (i.e. only include the header and trailer lines) --package <package> Specify the package name when using --create (optional) --auto-nmu Attempt to intelligently determine whether a change to the changelog represents an NMU (default) --no-auto-nmu Do not do so -n, --nmu Increment the Debian release number for a non-maintainer upload --bin-nmu Increment the Debian release number for a binary non-maintainer upload -q, --qa Increment the Debian release number for a Debian QA Team upload -R, --rebuild Increment the Debian release number for a no-change rebuild -s, --security Increment the Debian release number for a Debian Security Team upload --team Increment the Debian release number for a team upload -U, --upstream Increment the Debian release number without any appended derivative distribution name --bpo Increment the Debian release number for a backports upload to "jessie-backports" -l, --local <suffix> Add a suffix to the Debian version number for a local build -b, --force-bad-version Force a version to be less than the current one (e.g., when backporting) --allow-lower-version <pattern> Allow a version to be less than the current one (e.g., when backporting) if it matches the specified pattern --force-distribution Force the provided distribution to be used, even if it doesn't match the list of known distributions --closes nnnnn[,nnnnn,...] Add entries for closing these bug numbers, getting bug titles from the BTS (bug-tracking system, bugs.debian.org) --[no]query [Don't] try contacting the BTS to get bug titles (default: do query) -d, --fromdirname Add a new changelog entry with version taken from the directory name -p, --preserve Preserve the directory name --no-preserve Do not preserve the directory name (default) --vendor <vendor> Override the distributor ID from dpkg-vendor. -D, --distribution <dist> Use the specified distribution in the changelog entry being edited -u, --urgency <urgency> Use the specified urgency in the changelog entry being edited -c, --changelog <changelog> Specify the name of the changelog to use in place of debian/changelog No directory traversal or checking is performed in this case. --news <newsfile> Specify that the newsfile (default debian/NEWS) is to be edited --[no]multimaint When appending an entry to a changelog section (-a), [do not] indicate if multiple maintainers are now involved (default: do so) --[no]multimaint-merge When appending an entry to a changelog section, [do not] merge the entry into an existing changelog section for the current author. (default: do not) -m, --maintmaint Don't change (maintain) the maintainer details in the changelog entry -M, --controlmaint Use maintainer name and email from the debian/control Maintainer field -t, --mainttrailer Don't change (maintain) the trailer line in the changelog entry; i.e. maintain the maintainer and date/time details --check-dirname-level N How much to check directory names: N=0 never N=1 only if program changes directory (default) N=2 always --check-dirname-regex REGEX What constitutes a matching directory name; REGEX is a Perl regular expression; the string `PACKAGE' will be replaced by the package name; see manpage for details (default: 'PACKAGE(-.+)?') --no-conf, --noconf Don't read devscripts config files; must be the first option given --release-heuristic log|changelog Select heuristic used to determine if a package has been released. (default: changelog) --help, -h Display this help message and exit --version Display version information At most one of -a, -i, -e, -r, -v, -d, -n, --bin-nmu, -q, --qa, -R, -s, --team, --bpo, -l (or their long equivalents) may be used. With no options, one of -i or -a is chosen by looking at the release specified in the changelog. Default settings modified by devscripts configuration files: (none)