Improvements/Fixes to Dpkg manual pages

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:51:55 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hallo Guillem,
I just updated the dpkg man pages translation and noticed the
following:

deb-changelog
=============
The sentence is lacking any »ignored«?

"Any line that consists entirely (i.e., no leading whitespace) of B<#> or B</"
"* */> style comments or RCS keywords."

deb-src-control
===============
FIXME [!linux-any], → [!linux-any]

" # Comment.\n"
" Source: dpkg\n"
" Section: admin\n"
" Priority: required\n"
" Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[email protected]>\n"
" # This field is copied to the binary and source packages.\n"
" XBS-Upstream-Release-Status: stable\n"
" Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg\n"
" Vcs-Browser: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git\n"
" Vcs-Git: https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git\n"
" Standards-Version: 4.7.2\n"
" Build-Depends:\n"
"  dpkg-build-api (= 1),\n"
"  debhelper-compat (= 13),\n"
"  debhelper (>= 13.10~),\n"
"  pkgconf,\n"
"  libselinux1-dev (>= 1.28-4) [!linux-any],\n"
"\n"


deb
===
B<tar> → L<tar(1)>?

"The B<tar> archives currently allowed are:"


tar archive → B<tar> archive

"The second required member is a tar archive containing the package control "
"information."



since 1.17.6 → since dpkg 1.17.6

"* xz (with B<.xz> extension, supported since 1.17.6)"



deb822(5) → L<deb822(5)>

"Mandatory core control information, in deb822(5) format."


dpkg-buildflags
===============
and export → and exports

"Makefile snippet that loads (and optionally export) all flags supported by "
"B<dpkg-buildflags> into variables (since dpkg 1.16.1)."



export them → exports them

"Makefile snippet that sets suitable host and build tools (and optionally "
"export them) into variables (since dpkg 1.19.0)."


dpkg-query and dpkg
===================
B<less> → L<less(1)>
B<more> → L<more(1)>
B<cat> → L<cat(1)>

"The B<DPKG_PAGER> overrides the B<PAGER> environment variable (since dpkg "
"1.19.2).  If none of the programs pointed by B<DPKG_PAGER> or B<PAGER> are "
"present, the following programs will be tried in order (since dpkg 1.22.12): "
"the default pager B<%DPKG_DEFAULT_PAGER%>, then B<less>, B<more>, and "
"finally B<cat>."


dpkg
====
B<directory> → I<dir>

"Set the root directory to B<directory>, which sets the installation "
"directory to «I<dir>» and the administrative directory to "
"«I<dir>B<%ADMINDIR%>» if B<DPKG_ROOT> has not been set (since dpkg 1.21.10)."



Greetings

           Helge

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