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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 09:40:31 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 09:40:31 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1.20.13.upstream/1.20.13upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/deb-override.pod b/man/deb-override.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff7be17 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/deb-override.pod @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +# 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/>. + +=encoding utf8 + +=head1 NAME + +deb-override - Debian archive override file + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + +B<override> + +=head1 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. + +The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are +allowed (denoted with a +B<#>). + +=over + +I<package> +I<priority> +I<section> +[I<maintainer-info>] + +=back + +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. + +I<priority> +and +I<section> +correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb. The +allowed values are specific to each distribution archive. + +I<maintainer-info>, +if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional +override, or else +I<old-maintainer> +B<=E<gt>> +I<new-maintainer> +to perform a substitution. + +The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found +in the +I<indices> +directory on any Debian mirror. + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +B<dpkg-scanpackages>(1), +B<dpkg-scansources>(1), +B<apt-ftparchive>(1). |