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diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index 712f36dc80855d8b4e948f180fe4b85680eadbb8..1a6945a13204b9441450583854819e76a35e93da 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ contains no : (except perhaps on in [ ], to support IPv6 address
 literals).
 
 You will need similar enough versions of dgit on the build-host and
-the invocation host.
+the invocation host.  The build-host needs gnupg installed, with your
+public key in its keyring (but not your private key, obviously).
 .TP
 .B dgit quilt-fixup
 Looks to see if the tree is one which dpkg-source cannot properly
@@ -273,9 +274,9 @@ Passed to dpkg-genchanges (eventually).
 Specifies a single additional option to pass, eventually, to
 dpkg-genchanges.
 .TP
-.RI \fB--dget=\fR program |\fB--dput=\fR program |...
+.RI \fB--curl=\fR program |\fB--dput=\fR program |...
 Specifies alternative programs to use instead of
-.BR dget ,
+.BR curl ,
 .BR dput ,
 .BR debsign ,
 .BR dpkg-source ,
@@ -294,7 +295,7 @@ this applies only when the program is invoked directly by dgit.
 For dgit, specifies the command to run on the remote host when dgit
 rpush needs to invoke a remote copy of itself.  (dgit also reinvokes
 itself as the EDITOR for dpkg-source --commit; this is done using
-argv[0], and is not affected by --dget=).
+argv[0], and is not affected by --dgit=).
 
 For ssh, the default value is taken from the
 .B DGIT_SSH
@@ -311,9 +312,9 @@ git to access dgit-repos, only git's idea of what ssh to use (eg,
 .BR GIT_SSH )
 is relevant.
 .TP
-.RI \fB--dget:\fR option |\fB--dput:\fR option |...
+.RI \fB--curl:\fR option |\fB--dput:\fR option |...
 Specifies a single additional option to pass to
-.BR dget ,
+.BR curl ,
 .BR dput ,
 .BR debsign ,
 .BR dpkg-source ,
@@ -511,6 +512,10 @@ build and dgit push.
 To a user looking at the archive, changes pushed using dgit look like
 changes made in an NMU: in a `3.0 (quilt)' package the delta from the
 previous upload is recorded in a new patch constructed by dpkg-source.
+.SH READ-ONLY DISTROS
+Distros which do not maintain a set of dgit history git repositories
+can still be used in a read-only mode with dgit.  Currently Ubuntu
+is configured this way.
 .SH PACKAGE SOURCE FORMATS
 If you are not the maintainer, you do not need to worry about the
 source format of the package.  You can just make changes as you like
@@ -658,7 +663,7 @@ interprets it the same way as git does.
 See
 also the --ssh= and --ssh: options.
 .TP
-.BR gpg ", " dpkg- "..., " debsign ", " git ", " dget ", " dput ", " LWP::UserAgent
+.BR gpg ", " dpkg- "..., " debsign ", " git ", " curl ", " dput ", " LWP::UserAgent
 and other subprograms and modules used by dgit are affected by various
 environment variables.  Consult the documentaton for those programs
 for details.
@@ -723,7 +728,7 @@ well-defined interface, let alone a secure one.)
 fetches may result in subsequent actions being different.  Doing a
 non-dry-run dgit fetch first will help.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBdget\fP(1),
+\fBcurl\fP(1),
 \fBdput\fP(1),
 \fBdebsign\fP(1),
 \fBgit-config\fP(1),