DSCVERIFY(1)

NAME
dscverify - verify the validity of a Debian package

SYNOPSIS
dscverify [--keyring keyring] ... changes_or_dsc_filename ...

DESCRIPTION
dscverify checks that the GPG or PGP signatures on the given .changes or .dsc files are good signatures made by keys in the current Debian keyrings, found in the debian-keyring package. (Additional keyrings can be specified using the --keyring option any number of times.) It then checks that the other files listed in the .changes or .dsc files have the correct sizes and MD5 sums. The exit status is 0 if there are no problems and non-zero otherwise.

OPTIONS

--keyringkeyring
    Add keyring to the list of keyrings to be used.

--no-conf, --noconf
    Do not read any configuration files. This can only be used as the first option given on the command-line.

--help, -h
    Display a help message and exit successfully.

--version
    Display version and copyright information and exit successfully.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. If the first command line option given is --noconf or --no-conf, then these files will not be read. The currently recognised variable is:

DSCVERIFY_KEYRINGS
    This is a colon-separated list of extra keyrings to use in addition to any specified on the command line.

SEE ALSO
gpg(1) and devscripts.conf(5).

AUTHOR
dscverify was written by Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> and posted on the debian-devel@lists.debian.org mailing list, with several modifications by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.