From 37030e02cab5efe710834268f3d4ea426ec4a99a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:34:31 +0200
Subject: 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.
---
 man/deb-src-files.man | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man')

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
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