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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=e2b53a0ce84207b8ebd34422bae797ad435e44f1 commit e2b53a0ce84207b8ebd34422bae797ad435e44f1 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Sun Oct 7 19:17:44 2018 +0200 man: Document Build-Ids field in deb-control(5) Prompted-by: Stuart Prescott <[email protected]> --- debian/changelog | 2 ++ man/deb-control.man | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index e37084c5e..1f4f0e893 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ dpkg (1.19.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium - dsc(5): Add a reference to where the source formats are described. Prompted by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>. - dpkg-source(1): Improve documentation on vendor-specific series files. + - deb-control(5): Document Build-Ids field. + Prompted by Stuart Prescott <[email protected]>. [ Updated man pages translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). diff --git a/man/deb-control.man b/man/deb-control.man index 865b4941a..d0f132594 100644 --- a/man/deb-control.man +++ b/man/deb-control.man @@ -341,6 +341,14 @@ Binary packages marked with this field will not appear in the \fIdebian/control\fP master source control file. The only currently used reason is \fBdebug\-symbols\fP. . +.TP +.BI Build\-Ids: " elf-build-id-list" +This field specifies a whitespace separated list of ELF build-ids. These +are unique identifiers for semantically identical ELF objects, for each +of these within the package. +. +The format or the way to compute each build-id is not defined by design. +. .SH EXAMPLE .\" .RS .nf @@ -367,6 +375,11 @@ Description: GNU grep, egrep and fgrep. .fi .\" .RE . +.SH BUGS +The \fBBuild\-Ids\fP field uses a rather generic name out of its original +context within an ELF object, which serves a very specific purpose and +executable format. +. .SH SEE ALSO .BR deb (5), .BR deb\-version (7), -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
