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DSCVERIFY(1)                                                  General Commands Manual                                                 DSCVERIFY(1)

NAME

       dscverify - verify the validity of a Debian package

SYNOPSIS

       dscverify [--keyring keyring] ... changes_or_dsc_filename ...

DESCRIPTION

       dscverify  checks  that  the  GPG  signatures  on  the  given .changes or .dsc files are good signatures made by keys in the current Debian
       keyrings, found in the debian-keyring and debian-maintainers packages.  (Additional keyrings can be specified using  the  --keyring  option
       any  number  of times.)  It then checks that the other files listed in the .changes or .dsc files have the correct sizes and checksums (MD5
       plus SHA1 and SHA256 if the latter are present).  The exit status is 0 if there are no problems and non-zero otherwise.

OPTIONS

       --keyring keyring
              Add keyring to the list of keyrings to be used.

       --no-default-keyrings
              Do not use the default set of keyrings.

       --no-conf, --noconf
              Do not read any configuration files.  This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line.

       --nosigcheck, --no-sig-check, -u
              Skip the signature verification step. That is, only verify the sizes and checksums of the files  listed  in  the  .changes  or  .dsc
              files.

       --verbose
              Do not suppress GPG output.

       --help, -h
              Display a help message and exit successfully.

       --version
              Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The  two  configuration  files  /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
       Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.  If the first command line option given is --noconf or  --no-conf,  then  these
       files will not be read.  The currently recognised variable is:

       DSCVERIFY_KEYRINGS
              This is a colon-separated list of extra keyrings to use in addition to any specified on the command line.

KEYRING

       Please  note  that  the keyring provided by the debian-keyring package can be slightly out of date. The latest version can be obtained with
       rsync, as documented in the README that comes with debian-keyring.  If you sync the keyring to a non-standard location (see below), you can
       use the possibilities to specify extra keyrings, by either using the above mentioned configuration option or the --keyring option.

       Below is an example for an alias:

       alias dscverify='dscverify --keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'

STANDARD KEYRING LOCATIONS

       By default dscverify searches for the debian-keyring in the following locations:

       - /org/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg

       - /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg

       - /usr/share/keyrings/debian-maintainers.gpg

SEE ALSO

       gpg(1) and devscripts.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       dscverify was written by Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> and posted on the debian-devel@lists.debian.org mailing list, with several
       modifications by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.

DEBIAN                                                           Debian Utilities                                                     DSCVERIFY(1)

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WHO-UPLOADS(1)						      General Commands Manual						    WHO-UPLOADS(1)

NAME

       who-uploads - identify the uploaders of Debian source packages

SYNOPSIS

       who-uploads [options] source_package ...

DESCRIPTION

       who-uploads  uses  the  Package Tracking System (PTS) to identify the uploaders of the three most recent versions of the given source pack-
       ages.  Note that the uploaders are identified using their gpg(1) keys; installing a recent version of  the  debian-keyring  package  should
       provide most of the required keys.

       Note that because the PTS uses source packages, you must give the source package names, not the binary package names.

OPTIONS

       -M, --max-uploads=N
	      Specify the maximum number of uploads to display for each package; the default is 3.  Note that you may not see this many uploads if
	      there are not this many recorded in the PTS.

       --keyring keyring
	      Add keyring to the list of keyrings to be searched for the uploader's GPG key.

       --no-default-keyrings
	      By default, who-uploads uses the two Debian keyrings /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg and /usr/share/keyrings/debian-maintain-
	      ers.gpg  (although this default can be changed in the configuration file, see below).  Specifying this option means that the default
	      keyrings will not be examined.  The --keyring option overrides this one.

       --date Show the date of the upload alongside the uploader's details

       --nodate, --no-date
	      Do not show the date of the upload alongside the uploader's details.  This is the default behaviour.

       --no-conf, --noconf
	      Do not read any configuration files.  This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line.

       --help, -h
	      Display a help message and exit successfully.

       --version
	      Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced in that order to set configuration variables.  Command  line
       options	can  be  used to override configuration file settings.	Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.  The currently
       recognised variables are:

       WHOUPLOADS_DATE
	      Show the date of the upload alongside the uploader's details.  By default, this is "no".

       WHOUPLOADS_MAXUPLOADS
	      The maximum number of uploads to display for each package.  By default, this is 3.

       WHOUPLOADS_KEYRINGS
	      This  is	a  colon-separated  list  of  the  default  keyrings  to  be  used.   By  default,  it	is   the   two	 Debian   keyrings
	      /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg and /usr/share/keyrings/debian-maintainers.gpg.

AUTHOR

       The  original  version  of  who-uploads	was  written  by  Adeodato  Simo  <dato@net.com.org.es>.   The current version is by Julian Gilbey
       <jdg@debian.org>.

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