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authorGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2013-12-20 06:45:11 +0100
committerGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2014-01-14 16:59:28 +0100
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man: Add mention of Multi-Arch: no value
This is the default value when it gets ommitted, mention it out of completeness. Closes: #732648
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\" Copyright © 1995 Raul Miller, Ian Jackson, Ian Murdock
.\" Copyright © 1999 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
.\" Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
-.\" Copyright © 2007-2011 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+.\" Copyright © 2007-2011, 2013 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
.\" Copyright © 2008-2012 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
.\"
.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
-.TH deb\-control 5 "2011-08-14" "Debian Project" "Debian"
+.TH deb\-control 5 "2013-12-20" "Debian Project" "Debian"
.SH NAME
deb\-control \- Debian packages' master control file format
.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ The upstream project home page \fIurl\fP.
List of tags describing the qualities of the package. The description and
list of supported tags can be found in the \fBdebtags\fP package.
.TP
-.BR Multi\-Arch: " \fBsame\fP|\fBforeign\fP|\fBallowed\fP"
+.BR Multi\-Arch: " \fBsame\fP|\fBforeign\fP|\fBallowed\fP|\fBno\fP"
This field is used to indicate how this package should behave on a multi-arch
installations. The value \fBsame\fP means that the package is co-installable
with itself, but it must not be used to satisfy the dependency of any package
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ satisfy the dependency of a package of a different arch from itself. The
value \fBallowed\fP allows reverse-dependencies to indicate in their
Depends field that they accept a package from a foreign architecture, but
has no effect otherwise.
+The value \fBno\fP is the default when the field is omitted, in which case
+the field is generally not needed.
.TP
.BI Source: " source-name"
The name of the source package that this binary package came from, if