Package Details: devscripts 2.26.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/devscripts.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: devscripts
Description: Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Upstream URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/devscripts
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Conflicts: checkbashisms
Provides: checkbashisms
Submitter: Misery
Maintainer: fixeria
Last Packager: ItachiSan
Votes: 27
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2008-03-19 22:52 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-01-11 15:56 (UTC)

Dependencies (30)

Required by (6)

Sources (2)

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ItachiSan commented on 2026-01-11 09:00 (UTC)

For all: debianutils and systemd conflict.

See a fix at the AUR page for debianutils: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/debianutils#comment-1054438

ItachiSan commented on 2017-05-17 10:50 (UTC) (edited on 2023-02-16 09:00 (UTC) by ItachiSan)

If the package is outdated, please report it with the 'Flag outdated package' above.

If there is an issue regarding packaging, please report it here:

https://github.com/ItachiSan/linux_packaging/issues/

As I do not use this package (I use a Docker container for Debian packaging) please tell me whenever a dependency is missing, so that I can move it from a make dependency to a normal dependency.

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ItachiSan commented on 2026-01-11 18:48 (UTC)

Hello to whomever is listening,

Since I am not using this package, I will disown it. As of today (2026-01-11) the package is up to date and building.

Feel free to poke me for maintenance help and hope someone will pick it up soon!

ItachiSan commented on 2026-01-11 09:00 (UTC)

For all: debianutils and systemd conflict.

See a fix at the AUR page for debianutils: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/debianutils#comment-1054438

ItachiSan commented on 2026-01-11 08:40 (UTC)

@fixeria thanks for the changes, I will review the changes in your Github and apply them here. :)

fixeria commented on 2026-01-09 20:35 (UTC)

@ItachiSan I created https://github.com/fixeria/aur_devscripts with some patches for this repository, feel free to pull them. Thanks for maintaining.

fixeria commented on 2026-01-09 19:53 (UTC)

@ItachiSan now https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.25.29.tar.xz returns 404, same issue as with the 2.25.25. Could you please switch to a more reliable source? I suggested https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/tags in a previous comment. All release tarballs, even old ones, can still be downloaded from there. Thank you!

fixeria commented on 2025-12-06 21:07 (UTC)

https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/devscripts/devscripts_2.25.25.tar.xz returns 404, looks like it has been removed? The 2.25.25 can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/tags.

jsimon0 commented on 2025-08-27 15:33 (UTC)

While I haven't tested everything (I only use this package for debchange), here is a PKGBUILD that depends on sensible-utils instead of the split packages sensible-browser and sensible-editor such that it can be built and installed. At least debchange functions afterwards

# Maintainer: Giovanni 'ItachiSan' Santini <giovannisantini93@yahoo.it>
# Contributor: Ferdinand Bachmann <theferdi265@gmail.com>
# Contributor: Jochen Schalanda <jochen+aur@schalanda.name>
# Contributor: Charles Pigott <charlespigott@googlemail.com>
# Contributor: André Klitzing <aklitzing@online.de>
# Contributor: JD Horelick <jdhore1@gmail.com>

pkgname=devscripts
pkgver=2.25.18
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/devscripts"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('dpkg' 'wget' 'sed' 'perl' 'debianutils' 'debhelper'
         'perl-file-homedir' 'perl-timedate' 'sensible-utils')
makedepends=(
    'docbook-xsl'
    'bash-completion'
    'help2man'
    'git'
    'perl-file-desktopentry'
    'perl-file-basedir'
    'perl-git-wrapper'
    'perl-libwww'
    'perl-list-compare'
    'perl-parse-debcontrol'
    'perl-pod-parser'
    'perl-timedate'
    'po4a'
    'python-setuptools'
)
optdepends=(
    'debian-keyring: Required for commands interacting with the system / user keyring'
    'perl-file-touch: Required for uscan'
    'perl-file-dirlist: Required for uscan'
    'perl-moo: Required for uscan'
    'perl-ipc-run: Required for uscan'
    'perl-lwp-protocol-https: Required for uscan'
    'quilt: Required for edit-patch'
)
provides=(checkbashisms)
conflicts=(checkbashisms)
options=('!makeflags')
source=(
    "https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/${pkgname:0:1}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}.tar.xz"
    fixes.patch
)
sha256sums=('4f17c44ef6f9db4f590051d3b2c9ffc81d8fb379ab17ca437a90c03fe5d9e01d'
            'd6c57a87037b6f15c5130b6f40a909b9dc6f9414be5fd1628a1eddecfba4e4b2')

prepare(){
    # Sometimes there is the version in the tarball, sometimes not.
    # Ensure we always have the proper directory.
    if [ ! -d "${pkgname}-${pkgver}" -a -d "${pkgname}" ]
    then
        ln -s "${pkgname}" "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    fi

    # Somehow they now have a "work" folder instead?
    if [ ! -d "${pkgname}-${pkgver}" -a -d work ]
    then
        ln -s work "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    fi

    cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    patch -p1 -i "$srcdir/fixes.patch"

    # Ensure the local folder is recognized as a package and used appropriately.
    touch scripts/devscripts/__init__.py
}

build() {
    cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    make
}

package() {
    cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install

    # Install the script manpages appropriately
    for script_manpage in scripts/*.1
    do
        cp -v $script_manpage "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1"
    done

    # Create dch symlink to debchange
    ln -s /usr/bin/debchange "$pkgdir/usr/bin/dch"

    # bts completion is present already in the official package
    rm "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/bts"
}

fbrennan commented on 2023-05-27 18:35 (UTC)

The flag is likely invalid as I just pushed a sensible-utils that should work with this package. See https://github.com/ItachiSan/linux_packaging/issues/14.

However, @xiota remains right that the dep is dubious.

ItachiSan commented on 2023-02-20 13:43 (UTC)

Thanks @yrlf, had time now to work on the package.

All the suggestions are sound, I applied all of them and gave you credit as contributor :)

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