ubuntu-dev-tools

About ubuntu-dev-tools

From Debian's package description

This is a collection of useful tools that Ubuntu developers use to make their packaging work a lot easier.

Such tools include:

• backportpackage - helper to test package backports
• bitesize - add the 'bitesize' tag to a bug and comment that you are willing to help fix it.
• check-mir - check support status of build/binary dependencies
• check-symbols - will compare and give you a diff of the exported symbols of all .so files in a binary package.
• dch-repeat - used to repeat a change log into an older release.
• grab-merge - grabs a merge from merges.ubuntu.com easily.
• grep-merges - search for pending merges from Debian.
• import-bug-from-debian - copy a bug from the Debian BTS to Launchpad
• merge-changelog - manually merges two Debian changelogs with the same base version.
• mk-sbuild - script to create LVM snapshot chroots via schroot and sbuild.
• pbuilder-dist, cowbuilder-dist - wrapper script for managing several build chroots (for different Ubuntu and Debian releases) on the same system.
• pull-debian-debdiff - attempts to find and download a specific version of a Debian package and its immediate parent to generate a debdiff.
• pull-debian-source - downloads the latest source package available in Debian of a package.
• pull-lp-source - downloads source package from Launchpad.
• pull-lp-debs - downloads debs package(s) from Launchpad.
• pull-lp-ddebs - downloads dbgsym/ddebs package(s) from Launchpad.
• pull-lp-udebs - downloads udebs package(s) from Launchpad.
• pull-debian-* - same as pull-lp-* but for Debian packages.
• pull-uca-* - same as pull-lp-* but for Ubuntu Cloud Archive packages.
• pull-pkg - common script that provides above pull-* functionality.
• requestbackport - file a backporting request.
• requestsync - files a sync request with Debian changelog and rationale.
• reverse-depends - find the reverse dependencies (or build dependencies) of a package.
• running-autopkgtests - lists the currently running and/or queued autopkgtests on the Ubuntu autopkgtest infrastructure
• seeded-in-ubuntu - query if a package is safe to upload during a freeze.
• setup-packaging-environment - assistant to get an Ubuntu installation ready for packaging work.
• sponsor-patch - Downloads a patch from a Launchpad bug, patches the source package, and uploads it (to Ubuntu or a PPA)
• submittodebian - automatically send your changes to Debian as a bug report.
• syncpackage - helper to prepare .changes file to upload synced packages
• ubuntu-build - give commands to the Launchpad build daemons from the command line.
• ubuntu-iso - output information of an Ubuntu ISO image.
• ubuntu-upload-permission - query / list the upload permissions for a package.
• update-maintainer - script to update maintainer field in ubuntu packages.

From Debian's description of the ubuntu-dev-tools package, under that package's license.