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+.\" Copyright 2010 Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
+.\" 
+.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\" 
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+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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+.\" 
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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+.\"
+.TH SETUPPY-DEBIAN-VERSIONS-MATCH 1
+.SH NAME
+setuppy-debian-versions-match \- do setup.py and debian/changelog match?
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B setuppy-debian-versions-match
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+When making a Debian package out of Python code that uses distutils,
+it is good to have 
+.B setup.py --version
+and the 
+.B debian/changelog
+file match as far as version information is concerned.
+This utility checks that they do match.
+It compares only the upstream portion of the Debian version
+(everything before the last dash in the version string).
+.SH "EXIT STATUS"
+Exit code is 0 (true) if the versions match,
+and 1 (false) otherwise.