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-rw-r--r--debian/changelog2
-rw-r--r--man/dpkg-buildflags.14
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3e1056500..af02fc74d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ dpkg (1.18.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Document when and how the dpkg-maintscript-helper package name argument
is or should be arch-qualified. Closes: #776072
* Fix and update Arch substvar description in deb-substvars(5).
+ * Document that current build flag feature areas only work on Debian and
+ derivatives in dpkg-buildflags(1).
-- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:53:18 +0100
diff --git a/man/dpkg-buildflags.1 b/man/dpkg-buildflags.1
index 6b68541f1..ad42427c0 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-buildflags.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-buildflags.1
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ the flag is set/modified by an environment-specific configuration.
.TP
.BI \-\-query\-features " area"
Print the features enabled for a given area. The only currently recognized
-areas are \fBqa\fP, \fBreproducible\fP and \fBhardening\fP,
-see the \fBFEATURE AREAS\fP section for more details.
+areas on Debian and derivatives are \fBqa\fP, \fBreproducible\fP and
+\fBhardening\fP, see the \fBFEATURE AREAS\fP section for more details.
Exits with 0 if the area is known otherwise exits with 1.
.IP
The output is in RFC822 format, with one section per feature.