On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:21:41AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 11:55:42 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:12:28 +0200 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 13:45:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > Package: dpkg-dev > > > > Version: 1.19.7 > > > > Severity: normal > > > > File: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-control.5.gz > > > > I'm wondering what gave this false lead? > > > > I looked for documentation on the file named debian/control, and I > > remembered that dpkg uses the deb- abbreviation for many things, so I > > guessed `man deb-control` and found a manpage. > > > > Would you consider adding a note at the top of deb-control stating > > something like "Debian source packages support additional features in > > control files, which get eliminated when translating into the more > > restrictive format for binary packages described here. For the control > > format in source packages, see deb-src-control." > > I've committed the following: > > > <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=ddce4fcccb12e7591dd686dd4da247ad79de57b5> > > And also polished and merged an old commit I had around: > > > <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=4cbe2347c3964512083b1088d98cd2ebad1f597a> > > Hope, with these two that should have helped? If not I'm open to > further clarification. :)
That helps greatly, thank you! - Josh Triplett
