This is debuild, from the Debian devscripts package, version 2.16.2ubuntu3 This code is copyright 1999-2003 by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>, all rights reserved. Based on a shell-script program 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.

First usage method: debuild [<debuild options>] binary|binary-arch|binary-indep|clean ... to run debian/rules with given parameter(s). Options here are --no-conf, --noconf Don't read devscripts config files; must be the first option given --rootcmd=<gain-root-command>, -r<gain-root-command> Command used to become root if debuild not setuid root; default=fakeroot --preserve-envvar=<envvar>, -e<envvar> Preserve environment variable <envvar> --preserve-env Preserve all environment vars (except PATH) --set-envvar=<envvar>=<value>, -e<envvar>=<value> Set environment variable <envvar> to <value> --prepend-path=<value> Prepend <value> to the sanitised PATH -d Skip checking of build dependencies -D Force checking of build dependencies (default) --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(-.+)?') --help, -h display this message --version show version and copyright information Second usage method: debuild [<debuild options>] [<dpkg-buildpackage options>] [--lintian-opts <lintian options>] to run dpkg-buildpackage and then run lintian on the resulting .changes file. Additional debuild options available in this case are: --lintian Run lintian (default) --no-lintian Do not run lintian --[no-]tgz-check Do [not] check for an .orig.tar.gz before running dpkg-buildpackage if we have a Debian revision (Default: check) --username Run debrsign instead of debsign, using the supplied credentials --dpkg-buildpackage-hook=HOOK --clean-hook=HOOK --dpkg-source-hook=HOOK --build-hook=HOOK --binary-hook=HOOK --dpkg-genchanges-hook=HOOK --final-clean-hook=HOOK --lintian-hook=HOOK --signing-hook=HOOK --post-dpkg-buildpackage-hook=HOOK These hooks run at the various stages of the dpkg-buildpackage run. For details, see the debuild manpage. They default to nothing, and can be reset to nothing with --foo-hook='' --clear-hooks Clear all hooks For available dpkg-buildpackage and lintian options, see their respective manpages. Default settings modified by devscripts configuration files: (none)