On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 11:55:42 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:12:28 +0200 Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 13:45:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Package: dpkg-dev > > > Version: 1.19.7 > > > Severity: normal > > > File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-control.5.gz
> > I'm wondering what gave this false lead? > > I looked for documentation on the file named debian/control, and I > remembered that dpkg uses the deb- abbreviation for many things, so I > guessed `man deb-control` and found a manpage. > > Would you consider adding a note at the top of deb-control stating > something like "Debian source packages support additional features in > control files, which get eliminated when translating into the more > restrictive format for binary packages described here. For the control > format in source packages, see deb-src-control." I've committed the following: <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=ddce4fcccb12e7591dd686dd4da247ad79de57b5> And also polished and merged an old commit I had around: <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=4cbe2347c3964512083b1088d98cd2ebad1f597a> Hope, with these two that should have helped? If not I'm open to further clarification. :) Thanks, Guillem
