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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2017-01-22 16:16:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2017-01-22 22:55:29 +0100 |
| commit | cd9f688ca4bfd49e6574e2842dbd514459e84569 (patch) | |
| tree | 21ad7b2b4cbc8e394450ecc97dc5d873499af52c /man | |
| parent | 10b38de76c904bedc2aa6776248bcc1085bad6f0 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-cd9f688ca4bfd49e6574e2842dbd514459e84569.tar.gz | |
dpkg-gencontrol: Stop emitting Built-For-Profiles
The information is already provided in .buildinfo files, and including
it in the binary packages makes them unreproducible even when the
profile used would not alter its contents.
Closes: #831524
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/deb-control.man | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/deb-control.man b/man/deb-control.man index c6c49b397..ff1ebc262 100644 --- a/man/deb-control.man +++ b/man/deb-control.man @@ -317,9 +317,11 @@ refuse to accept an upload which declares a relationship which cannot be satisfied within the archive. . .TP -.BI Built\-For\-Profiles: " profile-list" -This field specifies a whitespace separated list of build profiles that this -binary packages was built with. +.BI Built\-For\-Profiles: " profile-list (obsolete)" +This field used to specify a whitespace separated list of build profiles that +this binary packages was built with (since dpkg 1.17.2 until 1.18.18). +The information previously found in this field can now be found in the +\fB.buildinfo\fP file, which supersedes it. . .SH EXAMPLE .\" .RS |