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diff --git a/man/deb-substvars.man b/man/deb-substvars.man index 76110faff..bfaa6ff4f 100644 --- a/man/deb-substvars.man +++ b/man/deb-substvars.man @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ .\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. . .TH deb\-substvars 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" +.ad l .nh .SH NAME deb\-substvars \- Debian source substitution variables @@ -39,8 +40,10 @@ they perform some variable substitutions on the output file. A variable substitution has the form .BI ${ variable-name }\fR. -Variable names consist of alphanumerics, hyphens and colons and start -with an alphanumeric. Variable substitutions are performed repeatedly +Variable names consist of alphanumerics (a-zA-Z0-9), hyphens (-) and +colons (:) and start with an alphanumeric, and are case-sensitive, even +though they might refer to other entities which are case-preserving. +Variable substitutions are performed repeatedly until none are left; the full text of the field after the substitution is rescanned to look for more substitutions. @@ -128,6 +131,7 @@ the value of that field. If this variable is not set will compute the default value by accumulating the size of each regular file and symlink rounded to 1 KiB used units, and a baseline of 1 KiB for any other filesystem object type. +With hardlinks only being counted once as a regular file. \fBNote:\fP Take into account that this can only ever be an approximation, as the actual size used on the installed system will depend greatly on the @@ -190,7 +194,6 @@ and an empty value is assumed. List of substitution variables and values. . .SH SEE ALSO -.ad l .BR dpkg (1), .BR dpkg\-genchanges (1), .BR dpkg\-gencontrol (1), |