1 # dpkg manual page - deb-override(5)
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4 # Copyright © 2010 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
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23 deb-override - Debian archive override file
31 While most information about a package can be found in the control file,
32 some is managed centrally by the distribution czars rather than by the
33 maintainer in order to offer some global consistency.
34 This information is found in the override file.
36 The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are
37 allowed (denoted with a
50 is the name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages
51 not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored.
56 correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb. The
57 allowed values are specific to each distribution archive.
60 if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional
65 to perform a substitution.
67 The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found
70 directory on any Debian mirror.
74 B<dpkg-scanpackages>(1),
75 B<dpkg-scansources>(1),