The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 4d25762c6139b17e6201670e5c2f4752eb76177c
Author: James Vega <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Apr 3 19:08:38 2010 -0400
Clarify --dctrl's effect on dd-list's behavior.
Thanks to Adeodato Simó for the suggestion. (Partially addresses #509983)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 399d5b0..48073e4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ devscripts (2.10.62) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
573092)
* checkbashisms: Detect more Bash builtins -- readarray, mapfile, enable.
(Closes: #568473)
+ * dd-list: Clarify that --dctrl simply changes the expected format of the
+ list of packages. Thanks to Adeodato Simó for the suggestion. (Partially
+ addresses #509983)
[ Patrick Schoenfeld ]
* nmudiff: Fix "[nmudiff] please include --tagpending option" by applying the
diff --git a/scripts/dd-list.1 b/scripts/dd-list.1
index 390e87a..d920dd2 100644
--- a/scripts/dd-list.1
+++ b/scripts/dd-list.1
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Read package names from the standard input, instead of taking
them
from the command line. Package names are whitespace delimited.
.TP
.BR \-d , \-\-dctrl
-Read package information from standard input in the format of a Debian
+Read package list from standard input in the format of a Debian
package control file. This includes the status file, or output of
apt-cache. This is the fastest way to use dd-list, as it uses the
maintainer information from the input instead of looking up the maintainer
diff --git a/scripts/dd-list.pl b/scripts/dd-list.pl
index a253867..214c75e 100755
--- a/scripts/dd-list.pl
+++ b/scripts/dd-list.pl
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Usage: dd-list [options] [package ...]
Read package names from the standard input.
-d, --dctrl
- Read Debian control data from standard input.
+ Read package list in Debian control data from standard input.
-u, --uploaders
Also list Uploaders of packages, not only the listed Maintainers
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