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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-09-07 15:05:00 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-09-14 15:22:18 +0200
commiteed4639e3feea0dd4ebedfac95fb5428753b795f (patch)
tree0a01a1f5b45ece35d8b07d85e6e4b91331c82802 /doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt
parent3addaba1ff6fe27cc96af5c2d345ee039c2bffec (diff)
add Source-Version field for EDSP
The syntax of "Source" is different in EDSP compared to the the field of the same name in 'the rest' of Debian, so documented this accordingly and send the version as a new field.
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@@ -227,6 +227,12 @@ field. The following fields are supported in package stanzas:
Release file entry (Origin, Label, Codename, etc.) in the format of
APT_PREFERENCES(5).
+- **Source:** (optional) The name of the source package the binary
+ package this record is for was built from.
+ This field does NOT include the version of the source package unlike
+ the Source field in the dpkg database. The version is optionally
+ available in the **Source-Version:** field.
+
### Answer