This is uupdate, from the Debian devscripts package, version 2.16.2ubuntu3 Copyright 1999-2003, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>, all rights reserved. Original 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 for a new archive: uupdate [options] <new upstream archive> [<version>] or uupdate [options] -f|--find For a patch file: uupdate [options] --patch|-p <patch>[.gz|.bz2|.lzma|.xz] Options are: --no-conf, --noconf Don't read devscripts config files; must be the first option given --upstream-version <version>, -v <version> specify version number of upstream package --force-bad-version, -b Force a version number to be less than the current one (e.g., when backporting). --rootcmd <gain-root-command>, -r <gain-root-command> which command to be used to become root for package-building --pristine, -u Source is pristine upstream source and should be copied to <pkg>_<version>.orig.tar.{gz|bz2|lzma|xz}; not valid for --patch --no-symlink Copy new upstream archive to new location as <pkg>_<version>.orig.tar.{gz|bz2|lzma|xz} instead of making a symlink; if it already exists, leave it there as is. --find, -f Find all upstream tarballs in ../ which match <pkg>_<version>.orig.tar.{gz|bz2|lzma|xz} or <pkg>_<version>.orig-<component>.tar.{gz|bz2|lzma|xz} ; --upstream-version required; pristine source required; not valid for --patch --verbose Give verbose output uupdate [--help|--version] show this message or give version information. Default settings modified by devscripts configuration files: (none)