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diff --git a/man/deb-override.man b/man/deb-override.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb11402 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/deb-override.man @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +.\" dpkg manual page - deb-override(5) +.\" +.\" Copyright © 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net> +.\" Copyright © 2010 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> +.\" +.\" This 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 2 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +. +.TH deb\-override 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" +.nh +.SH NAME +deb\-override \- Debian archive override file +. +.SH SYNOPSIS +override +. +.SH DESCRIPTION +While most information about a package can be found in the control file, +some is managed centrally by the distribution czars rather than by the +maintainer in order to offer some global consistency. +This information is found in the override file. +.PP +The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are +allowed (denoted with a +.BR # ). +.PP +.in +5 +.I package +.I priority +.I section +.RI [ maintainerinfo ] +.in -5 +.PP +.I package +is the name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages +not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored. +.PP +.I priority +and +.I section +correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb. The +allowed values are specific to each distribution archive. +.PP +.IR maintainerinfo , +if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional +override, or else +.I oldmaintainer +.B => +.I newmaintainer +to perform a substitution. +.PP +The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found +in the +.I indices +directory on any Debian mirror. +. +.SH SEE ALSO +.ad l +.BR dpkg\-scanpackages (1), +.BR dpkg\-scansources (1), +.BR apt\-ftparchive (1). |