The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 01975939b8632d708035c229950c44650cc537d2
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Apr 5 17:29:41 2013 +0200
dpkg(1): Clarify that DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE is not arch-qualified
The architecture information is provided in the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH
environment variable.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d82edae..1434fab 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ dpkg (1.17.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- Move dpkg-buildflags(1) HARDENING into a new FEATURE AREAS subsection.
- Improve dpkg-buildflags(1) usage documentation.
Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman <[email protected]>. Closes: #657627
+ - Clarify that DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE is not arch-qualified.
* 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.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 54e2f08..291e635 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
.\" Copyright © 2000-2003 Adam Heath <[email protected]>
.\" Copyright © 2002 Josip Rodin
.\" Copyright © 2004-2005 Scott James Remnant <[email protected]>
-.\" Copyright © 2006-2012 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
+.\" Copyright © 2006-2013 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
.\" Copyright © 2007-2008 Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
.\" Copyright © 2008-2011 Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>
.\"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" 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 1 "2012-06-05" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
+.TH dpkg 1 "2013-04-05" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
.SH NAME
dpkg \- package manager for Debian
.
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ version of the currently running \fBdpkg\fP instance.
.TP
.B DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE
Defined by \fBdpkg\fP on the maintainer script environment to the
-package name being handled.
+(non-arch-qualified) package name being handled.
.TP
.B DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH
Defined by \fBdpkg\fP on the maintainer script environment to the
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