debnest_make - creates a nested debian source package tree

debnest_make <.dsc> [<suffix>]

Debnest is a program to create a nested debian source package tree from the specified debian source control file <.dsc>. The nested debian source package will be named as <its original source package>-debian by default and its upstream version will be <original debian source version> and its revision will be 1. If you want to change -debian, you can specify it to second argument.

This creates debnest-debian-0.0.1/ and debnest-debian-0.0.1.orig/

  ~$ debnest_make /tmp/debnest_0.0.1.dsc
  ~$ ls
  debnest-debian-0.0.1/  debnest-debian-0.0.1.orig/

  ~$ cd debnest-debian-0.0.1
  ~$ debuild
  ~$ ls ..
  debnest-debian-0.0.1/           debnest-debian_0.0.1-1_i386.changes
  debnest-debian_0.0.1-1.diff.gz  debnest-debian_0.0.1.orig.tar.gz
  debnest-debian_0.0.1-1.dsc      debnest_0.0.1-1_all.deb

  ~$ tar ztf ../debnest-debian_0.0.1.orig.tar.gz
  debnest-debian-0.0.1.orig/
  debnest-debian-0.0.1.orig/debnest_0.0.1.tar.gz
  debnest-debian-0.0.1.orig/debnest_0.0.1.dsc

This creates debnest-local-0.0.1/ and debnest-local-0.0.1.orig/

  ~$ debnest_make /tmp/debnest_0.0.1.dsc -local
  ~$ ls
  debnest-local-0.0.1/  debnest-local-0.0.1.orig/

  If  either  of  these  variables  is set, it will be used as the
  maintainer/uploader's email address.
  If both are set, DEBEMAIL will take precedence.
  If neither is set, the current user's email address (or, if that
  fails, the email of the last original package uploader)
  will be used.

  The maintainer/uploader's full name to be used.
  If  unset, the name specified in the passwd file or,
  if there is none, the  name  of  the  last
  original package uploader.

  The rules file to be used. If unset, /usr/share/debneset/rules is
  used. If you want to use cdbs based rules, you would set it
  '/usr/share/debnest/rules-cdbs'. Because /usr/share/debnest/
  is a default search path, you can specify just 'rules-cdbs'.

  Extra build-dependency to be added in your new debian/control.
  Default is ", debnest"