Giacomo Vacca

diff provides one interesting option, ' -y ':        -y, --side-by-side               output in two columns If you combine it with ' --suppress-common-lines ':        --suppress-common-lines               do not output common lines you get a very nice to view diff in two columns, where only the different lines are displayed. My alias is: alias dico='diff -y --suppress-common-lines'

When using dch -i or -v, this tool will try to infer what name and email address the maintainer wants. The gist of this short post is: check the values of DEBEMAIL and DEBFULLNAME environment variables before running the build. And of course you can set them with a simple export command. From dch man page: If either --increment or --newversion is used, the name and email for the new version will be determined as follows. If the environment variable DEBFULLNAME is set, this will be used for the maintainer full name; if not, then NAME will be checked. If the environment variable DEBEMAIL is set, this will be used for the email address. If this variable has the form "name ", then the maintainer name will also be taken from here if neither DEBFULLNAME nor NAME is set. If this variable is not set, the same test is performed on the environment variable EMAIL. Next, if the full nam...