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# dpkg manual page - deb-override(5)
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#
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# Copyright © 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>
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# Copyright © 2010 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
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#
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# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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#
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# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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#
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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=encoding utf8
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=head1 NAME
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deb-override - Debian archive override file
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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B<override>
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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While most information about a package can be found in the control file,
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some is managed centrally by the distribution czars rather than by the
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maintainer in order to offer some global consistency.
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This information is found in the override file.
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The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format.
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Comments are
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allowed (denoted with a
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B<#>).
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=over
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I<package>
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I<priority>
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I<section>
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[I<maintainer-info>]
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=back
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I<package>
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is the name of the package.
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Entries in the override file for packages
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not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored.
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I<priority>
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and
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I<section>
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correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb.
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The
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allowed values are specific to each distribution archive.
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I<maintainer-info>,
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if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional
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override, or else
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I<old-maintainer>
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B<=E<gt>>
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I<new-maintainer>
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to perform a substitution.
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The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found
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in the
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I<indices>
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directory on any Debian mirror.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<dpkg-scanpackages(1)>,
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L<dpkg-scansources(1)>,
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L<apt-ftparchive(1)>.
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