xcontrol(1)

xcontrol1

Preprocessor for debian/control files

Usage

xcontrol build

xcontrol check

Overview

xcontrol rewrites the debian/xcontrol file in a Debian source package into a policy-compliant debian/control file, omitting any information that cannot be expressed properly. This allows the maintainer to easily synchronize debian/control to the more verbose debian/xcontrol.

Options

Currently, only two subcommands are allowed:

build

Read debian/xcontrol, output policy-compliant version on stdout.

check

Verify whether debian/control is up to date.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–10

Author

xcontrol was written by Simon Richter.

From debian-xcontrol 0.0.4-1.1+b6 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.