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| .TH deb\-override 5 "2011-08-14" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities" |
| .SH NAME |
| deb\-override \- Debian archive override file |
| . |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| override |
| . |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| While most information about a package can be found in the control file, |
| some is managed centrally by the distribution czars rather than by the |
| maintainer in order to offer some global consistency. |
| This information is found in the override file. |
| .PP |
| The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are |
| allowed (denoted with a |
| .BR # ). |
| .PP |
| .in +5 |
| .I package |
| .I priority |
| .I section |
| .RI [ maintainerinfo ] |
| .in -5 |
| .PP |
| .I package |
| is the name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages |
| not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored. |
| .PP |
| .I priority |
| and |
| .I section |
| correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb. The |
| allowed values are listed in the Debian policy. |
| .PP |
| .IR maintainerinfo , |
| if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional |
| override, or else |
| .I oldmaintainer |
| .B => |
| .I newmaintainer |
| to perform a substitution. |
| .PP |
| The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found |
| in the |
| .I indices |
| directory on any Debian mirror. |
| . |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR dpkg\-scanpackages (1), |
| .BR dpkg\-scansources (1), |
| .BR apt\-ftparchive (1), |
| .BR /usr/share/doc/debian\-policy/policy.html/index.html . |
