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dpkg-gencontrol(1) dpkg suite dpkg-gencontrol(1)
dpkg-gencontrol - generate Debian control files
dpkg-gencontrol [option...]
dpkg-gencontrol reads information from an unpacked Debian source
tree and generates a binary package control file (which defaults
to debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control); during this process it will
simplify the relation fields.
Thus Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends and Suggests are simplified
in this order by removing dependencies which are known to be true
according to the stronger dependencies already parsed. It will
also remove any self-dependency (in fact it will remove any
dependency which evaluates to true given the current version of
the package as installed). Logically it keeps the intersection of
multiple dependencies on the same package. The order of
dependencies is preserved as best as possible: if any dependency
must be discarded due to another dependency appearing further in
the field, the superseding dependency will take the place of the
discarded one.
The other relation fields (Enhances, Conflicts, Breaks, Replaces
and Provides) are also simplified individually by computing the
union of the various dependencies when a package is listed
multiple times in the field.
dpkg-gencontrol also adds an entry for the binary package to
debian/files.
-vversion
Sets the version number of the binary package which will be
generated.
-Vname=value
Set an output substitution variable. See deb-substvars(5) for
discussion of output substitution.
-Tsubstvars-file
Read substitution variables in substvars-file; the default is
debian/substvars. This option can be used multiple times to
read substitution variables from multiple files (since dpkg
1.15.6).
-Dfield=value
Override or add an output control file field.
-Ufield
Remove an output control file field.
-ccontrol-file
Specifies the main source control file to read information
from. The default is debian/control.
-lchangelog-file
Specifies the changelog file to read information from. The
default is debian/changelog.
-ffiles-list-file
Read or write the list of files to be uploaded here, rather
than using debian/files.
-Fchangelog-format
Specifies the format of the changelog. See
dpkg-parsechangelog(1) for information about alternative
formats.
-ppackage
Generate information for the binary package package. If the
source control file lists only one binary package then this
option may be omitted; otherwise it is essential to select
which binary package's information to generate.
-nfilename
Assume the filename of the package will be filename instead of
the normal package_version_arch.deb filename.
-is, -ip, -isp
These options are ignored for compatibility with older
versions of the dpkg build scripts but are now deprecated.
Previously they were used to tell dpkg-gencontrol to include
the Section and Priority fields in the control file. This is
now the default behavior. If you want to get the old behavior
you can use the -U option to delete the fields from the
control file.
-Ppackage-build-dir
Scan package-build-dir instead of debian/tmp. This value is
used to find the default value of the Installed-Size
substitution variable and control file field, and for the
default location of the output file.
-O[filename]
Print the control file to standard output (or filename if
specified, since dpkg 1.17.2), rather than to
debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control (or package-build-dir/DEBIAN/control
if -P was used).
-?, --help
Show the usage message and exit.
--version
Show the version and exit.
DEB_HOST_ARCH
Sets the host architecture.
DPKG_COLORS
Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently
accepted values are: auto (default), always and never.
DPKG_NLS
If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native
Language Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n)
support (since dpkg 1.19.0). The accepted values are: 0 and 1
(default).
debian/control
The main source control information file, giving version-
independent information about the source package and the
binary packages it can produce.
debian/files
The list of generated files which are part of the upload being
prepared. dpkg-gencontrol adds the presumed filenames of
binary packages whose control files it generates here.
deb-substvars(5), deb-src-control(5), deb-changelog(5),
deb-control(5).
This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-08-06.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
1.22.6-77-g86fe7 2024-03-10 dpkg-gencontrol(1)
Pages that refer to this page: dh_gencontrol(1), dpkg-buildtree(1), deb-src-rules(5), deb-substvars(5)
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