If a list of packages is given on the command line, then only those debs or udebs with names in this list of packages will be processed.
DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL can take the following values:
0 Never check the directory name.
1 Only check the directory name if we have had to change directory in our search for debian/changelog. This is the default behaviour.
2 Always check the directory name.
The directory name is checked by testing whether the current directory name (as determined by pwd(1)) matches the regex given by the configuration file option DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX or by the command line option --check-dirname-regex regex. Here regex is a Perl regex (see perlre(3perl)), which will be anchored at the beginning and the end. If regex contains a '/', then it must match the full directory path. If not, then it must match the full directory name. If regex contains the string \'PACKAGE', this will be replaced by the source package name, as determined from the changelog. The default value for the regex is: \'PACKAGE(-.+)?', thus matching directory names such as PACKAGE and PACKAGE-version.
-adebian-architecture, -tGNU-system-type See dpkg-architecture(1) for a description of these options. They affect the search for the .changes file. They are provided to mimic the behaviour of dpkg-buildpackage when determining the name of the .changes file.
--debs-dir directory Look for the .changes, .deb and .udeb files in directory instead of the parent of the source directory. This should either be an absolute path or relative to the top of the source directory.
--check-dirname-level N See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of this option.
--check-dirname-regex regex See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of this option.
--list-changes List the filename of the .changes file, and do not display anything else. This option only makes sense if a .changes file is NOT passed explicitly in the command line. This can be used for example in a script that needs to reference the .changes file, without having to duplicate the heuristics for finding it that debc already implements.
--list-debs List the filenames of the .deb packages, and do not display their contents.
--no-conf, --noconf Do not read any configuration files. This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line.
--help, --version Show help message and version information respectively.
DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR This specifies the directory in which to look for the .changes, .deb and .udeb files, and is either an absolute path or relative to the top of the source tree. This corresponds to the --debs-dir command line option. This directive could be used, for example, if you always use pbuilder or svn-buildpackage to build your packages. Note that it also affects debrelease(1) in the same way, hence the strange name of the option.
DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL ", " DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX See the above section Directory name checking for an explanation of these variables. Note that these are package-wide configuration variables, and will therefore affect all devscripts scripts which check their value, as described in their respective manpages and in devscripts.conf(5).