Re: [PATCH 3/3] man/man7/suffixes.7: Clarify Debian artifacts description

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Mon, 11 May 2026 00:10:06 +0200

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-man
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Hi Guillem,

On 2026-05-09T20:50:22+0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
> 
> The terminology for these artifacts was "recently" updated to make
> them consistent and more clear, where both dpkg and the Debian Policy
> now have matching terminology. Refer to the dpkg man pages for further

I've changed inter-sentence space to 2.

> information and format description.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>

Thanks!  I've applied the patch.


Cheers,
Alex

> ---
>  man/man7/suffixes.7 | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man7/suffixes.7 b/man/man7/suffixes.7
> index 8487bb5a1..8408aaadd 100644
> --- a/man/man7/suffixes.7
> +++ b/man/man7/suffixes.7
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Suffix	File type
>  \&.csh	\f[B]csh\f[](1) shell script
>  \&.cxx	equivalent to \f[I].cc\f[]
>  \&.dat	data file
> -\&.deb	Debian software package
> +\&.deb	Debian binary package (\f[B]deb\f[](5))
>  \&.def	Modula-2 source for definition modules
>  \&.def	other definition files
>  \&.desc	initial part of mail message unpacked with
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ command output)
>  T}
>  \&.dir	dbm data base directory file
>  \&.doc	documentation file
> -\&.dsc	Debian Source Control (source package)
> +\&.dsc	Debian source package control file (\f[B]dsc\f[](5))
>  \&.dtx	LaTeX package source file
>  \&.dvi	TeX's device independent output
>  \&.el	Emacs-Lisp source
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
> 

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