---
name: "cvs-debuild"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "devscripts"
version: "2.23.4+deb12u2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cvs-debuild"
---

# cvs-debuild(1)

build a Debian package using cvs-buildpackage and debuild

## NAME

cvs-debuild - build a Debian package using cvs-buildpackage and debuild

## SYNOPSIS

**cvs-debuild** \[*debuild options*\] \[*cvs-buildpackage options*\] \[**--lintian-opts** *lintian options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**cvs-debuild** is a wrapper around **cvs-buildpackage** to run it with **debuild** as the package-building program.  (This cannot simply be accomplished using the **-C** option of **cvs-buildpackage**, as it does not know how to handle all of the special **debuild** options.)

The program simply stashes the **debuild** and **lintian** options, and passes them to **debuild** when it is called by **cvs-buildpackage**.  All of the standard **debuild** options may be used (as listed below), but note that the root command specified by any **--rootcmd** or **-r** command-line option will be passed as an option to **cvs-buildpackage**.  The first non-**debuild** option detected will signal the start of the **cvs-buildpackage** options.

The selection of the root command is slightly subtle: if there are any command-line options, these will be used.  If not, then if **cvs-buildpackage** is set up to use a default root command, that will be used.  Finally, if neither of these are the case, then **debuild** will use its procedures to determine an appropriate command, as described in its documentation.

See the manpages for [**debuild**(1)](/debuild/1.md) and **cvs-buildpackage** for more information about the behaviour of each.

## OPTIONS

The following are the **debuild** options recognised by **cvs-debuild**.  All **cvs-buildpackage** and **lintian** options are simply passed to the appropriate program.  For explanations of the meanings of these variables, see [**debuild**(1)](/debuild/1.md).

- **--no-conf, --noconf**

  - **--rootcmd=***gain-root-command,* **-r***gain-root-command*

  - **--preserve-env**

  - **--preserve-envvar=***var,* **-e***var*

  - **--set-envvar=***var***=***value,* **-e***var***=***value*

  - **--lintian, --no-lintian**

  - **--ignore-dirname**, **--check-dirname**

  These should not be needed, but it is provided nevertheless.

## SEE ALSO

[**cvs-buildpackage**(1)](/cvs-buildpackage/1.md), [**debuild**(1)](/debuild/1.md), [**dpkg-buildpackage**(1)](/dpkg-buildpackage/1.md), [**lintian**(1)](/lintian/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This program was written by Julian Gilbey \<jdg@debian.org\>.