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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=91ab8ed935f78ca08f08cc51cb381d39aeeccb64 commit 91ab8ed935f78ca08f08cc51cb381d39aeeccb64 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Sun Aug 17 14:14:53 2025 +0200 man: Clarify that the archive described is the ar archive in a .deb Make it explicit what the archive refers to, as it could be confused for a tar archive, which was just mentioned in the preceding paragraph in the deb(5) man page. Unify the phrasing in deb-split(5) for consistency. --- man/deb-split.pod | 2 +- man/deb.pod | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/deb-split.pod b/man/deb-split.pod index ba35f59d4..f1b229bd6 100644 --- a/man/deb-split.pod +++ b/man/deb-split.pod @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ pieces to ease transport in small media. The file is an B<ar> archive with a magic value of B<!E<lt>archE<gt>>. The file names might contain a trailing slash (since dpkg 1.15.6). -The archive is composed of multiple members in a specific order: +The B<ar> archive is composed of multiple members in a specific order: =over diff --git a/man/deb.pod b/man/deb.pod index 48298c0e9..01d721655 100644 --- a/man/deb.pod +++ b/man/deb.pod @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The GNU large file metadata support permits 95-bit tar entry sizes and negative timestamps, and 63-bit UID, GID and device numbers, which amounts to practically unlimited values. -The archive is composed of multiple members in a specific order: +The B<ar> archive is composed of multiple members in a specific order: =over -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
