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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2014-11-10 19:40:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-01-17 16:43:42 +0100 |
| commit | 0fec5cfcf2cc07ea7ac3a20855ecef276d6e34c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 97f4e6c0105462fcc87221e4728cf339b01df5ed /man/deb-src-control.5 | |
| parent | 84e5efe254400b5df570fd1a5e70aeedf8b0632d (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-0fec5cfcf2cc07ea7ac3a20855ecef276d6e34c4.tar.gz | |
man: Document arch-qualifiers for dependency fields
Closes: #768842
Reported-by: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/deb-src-control.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/deb-src-control.5 | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/deb-src-control.5 b/man/deb-src-control.5 index 665dcedde..85ff79ef1 100644 --- a/man/deb-src-control.5 +++ b/man/deb-src-control.5 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" .\" Copyright © 2010 Oxan van Leeuwen <oxan@oxanvanleeuwen.nl> .\" Copyright © 2011 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> -.\" Copyright © 2011-2013 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> +.\" Copyright © 2011-2014 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> .\" .\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ fields is a list of groups of alternative packages. Each group is a list of packages separated by vertical bar (or "pipe") symbols, "|". The groups are separated by commas. Commas are to be read as "AND", and pipes as "OR", with pipes binding more tightly. Each package name is +optionally followed by an architecture qualifier appended after a colon ":", optionally followed by a version number specification in parentheses, an architecture specification in square brackets, and a restriction formula consisting of one or more lists of profile names in angle brackets. @@ -202,6 +203,17 @@ parentheses, an architecture specification in square brackets, and a restriction formula consisting of one or more lists of profile names in angle brackets. +An architecture qualifier name can be a real Debian architecture name +(since dpkg 1.16.5), \fBany\fP (since dpkg 1.16.2) or \fBnative\fP +(since dpkg 1.16.5). +If omitted, the default for \fBBuild\-Depends\fP fields is the current host +architecture, the default for \fBBuild\-Conflicts\fP fields is \fBany\fP. +A real Debian architecture name will match exactly that architecture for +that package name, \fBany\fP will match any architecture for that package +name if the package is marked with \fBMulti\-Arch: allowed\fP, and +\fBnative\fP will match the current build architecture if the package +is not marked with \fBMulti\-Arch: foreign\fP. + A version number may start with a ">>", in which case any later version will match, and may specify or omit the Debian packaging revision (separated by a hyphen). Accepted version relationships are ">>" for greater than, |