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authorArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 16:52:52 +0000
committerArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 16:52:52 +0000
commit350ed194e4bdca10b420b454fcbb88e1096dfd39 (patch)
treefaaed2179f5b2ab5f60f8b8ccb423f7d866036b7
parent424c3bc07b90cd626ee4bd43771a91fc7712e811 (diff)
Updated docs to reflect new file naming
Author: jgg Date: 1999-02-15 05:29:10 GMT Updated docs to reflect new file naming
-rw-r--r--doc/files.sgml8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/files.sgml b/doc/files.sgml
index 16367b550..1b0f166e0 100644
--- a/doc/files.sgml
+++ b/doc/files.sgml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<title>APT Files</title>
<author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author>
-<version>$Id: files.sgml,v 1.5 1998/12/31 05:45:26 jgg Exp $</version>
+<version>$Id: files.sgml,v 1.6 1999/02/15 05:29:10 jgg Exp $</version>
<abstract>
This document describes the complete implementation and format of the
@@ -260,7 +260,11 @@ No dirctory structure is transfered from the receiving site and all .deb
file names conform to debian conventions. No short (msdos) filename should
be placed in archives. If the need arises .debs should be unpacked, scanned
and renamed to their correct internal names. This is mostly to prevent
-file name conflicts but other programs may depend on this if convenient.
+file name conflicts but other programs may depend on this if convenient.
+A conforming .deb is one of the form, name_version_arch.deb. Our archive
+scripts do not handle epochs, but they are necessary and should be re-inserted.
+If necessary _'s and :'s in the fields should be quoted using the % convention.
+It must be possible to extract all 3 fields by examining the file name.
Downloaded .debs must be found in one of the package lists with an exact
name + version match..
</sect>