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authorGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2018-09-18 23:34:31 +0200
committerGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2018-09-18 23:43:35 +0200
commit37030e02cab5efe710834268f3d4ea426ec4a99a (patch)
treeb86ad41e7b247063972bca42142b4bc25dfb5b67 /man
parenta034e7d53b0c96c419d71c86921d2a509b0d79bc (diff)
downloaddpkg-37030e02cab5efe710834268f3d4ea426ec4a99a.tar.gz
Dpkg::Dist::Files: Add support for file attributes
This will make it possible to track key/value attributes for each file, so that we can track interesting information and pass it to the various programs parsing the debian/files file.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/deb-src-files.man7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/deb-src-files.man b/man/deb-src-files.man
index 39269aacd..cc8abda52 100644
--- a/man/deb-src-files.man
+++ b/man/deb-src-files.man
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ The \fIdebian/files\fP file has a simple whitespace-delimited format.
.I filename
.I section
.I priority
+[
+.I keyword=value\&...\&
+]
.in -5
.PP
.I filename
@@ -43,6 +46,10 @@ and
.I priority
correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb.
The allowed values are specific to each distribution archive.
+.PP
+.I keyword=value\&...\&
+corresponds to an optional whitespace-delimited list of attributes for this
+entry.
.
.SH NOTES
This file is not intended to be modified directly, please use one of