Bug#1110873: dpkg: DPKG_ROOT documentation unexpectedly mentions instdir

Ferenc Wágner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.bugs
Message-ID <175494303445.9449.15654179086264380397.reportbug__14622.7568200388$1754943205$gmane$org@fin.soreny>
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.21.22
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

"man dpkg" says:

  DPKG_ROOT
      [...] When installing packages into a different instdir, dpkg
      normally invokes maintainer scripts using chroot(2) and leaves
      this variable empty, but if --force-script-chrootless is specified
      then the chroot(2) call is skipped and instdir is non-empty.

The above would make more sense to me if the "instdir" reference in the
last line was "DPKG_ROOT", so I suspect a typo here.  Please fix the
documentation or my confusion.
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