The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 075149050ff8e33456b10253f34376df000b47c2
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Mar 27 16:16:38 2013 +0100
man: Move the dangers of installing via dpkg-deb from BUGS to a NOTES
section
This is not a bug, it's the way the program works.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6ffbffd..2868257 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ dpkg (1.17.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Use the new canonical dpkg git Vcs URLs.
* Remove ancient version from zlibg1-dev Build-Depends.
* Add compression development packages to libdpkg-dev Depends.
- * Disable justification and hyphenation in SEE ALSO man page sections.
- * Remove unneeded double quotes in .SH man page headings.
- * Do not use “header” when “format” or “field” is meant in man pages.
+ * Man pages cleanup:
+ - Disable justification and hyphenation in SEE ALSO sections.
+ - Remove unneeded double quotes in .SH headings.
+ - Do not use “header” when “format” or “field” is meant.
+ - Move dangers of installing via dpkg-deb from BUGS to a NOTES section.
* Use colon instead of dot for user:group in dpkg debug output.
* Remove support for obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed from Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
* Fix update-alternatives to use the current alternative link as the first
diff --git a/man/dpkg-deb.1 b/man/dpkg-deb.1
index 082e74d..754659e 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-deb.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-deb.1
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
-.TH dpkg\-deb 1 "2012-05-27" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
+.TH dpkg\-deb 1 "2013-03-27" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
.SH NAME
dpkg\-deb \- Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool
.
@@ -263,6 +263,14 @@ Enables debugging output. This is not very interesting.
If set, \fBdpkg\-deb\fP will use it as the directory in which to create
temporary files and directories.
.
+.SH NOTES
+Do not attempt to use just
+.B dpkg\-deb
+to install software! You must use
+.B dpkg
+proper to ensure that all the files are correctly placed and the
+package's scripts run and its status and contents recorded.
+.
.SH BUGS
.B dpkg\-deb \-I
.IB package1 .deb
@@ -276,13 +284,6 @@ files; in fact, there isn't even a straightforward
checksum.
retrieved from a given repository, and most packages nowadays provide an
md5sum control file generated by debian/rules. Though this is not directly
supported by the lower level tools.)
-
-Do not attempt to use just
-.B dpkg\-deb
-to install software! You must use
-.B dpkg
-proper to ensure that all the files are correctly placed and the
-package's scripts run and its status and contents recorded.
.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR deb (5),
--
dpkg's main repository
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