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+.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>.
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+.\"
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+.\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
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+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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+.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
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+.\" or (at your option) any later version.
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+.\"
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+.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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+.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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+.\"
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+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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+.\" License along with dpkg; if not, write to the Free Software
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+.\" Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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+.TH deb\-override 5 "2007-03-07" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities"
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+.SH NAME
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+deb\-override \- Debian archive override file
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+.
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+.SH SYNOPSIS
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+override
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+.
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+.SH DESCRIPTION
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+While most information about a package can be found in the control file,
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+some must be filled in by the distribution czars rather than by the
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+maintainer, because they relate to the arrangement of files for release
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+rather than the actual dependencies and description of the package.
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+This information is found in the override file.
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+.PP
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+The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are
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+allowed (denoted with a
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+.BR # ).
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+.PP
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+.in +5
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+.I package
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+.I priority
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+.I section
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+.RI [ maintainerinfo ]
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+.in -5
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+.PP
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+.I package
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+is the name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages
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+not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored.
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+.PP
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+.I priority
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+and
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+.I section
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+place the package within the release tree; these ought not to be found
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+in the control file. If the package is found in a subdirectory of
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+.IR binarydir ,
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+that will be checked against
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+.IR section .
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+.PP
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+.IR maintainerinfo ,
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+if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional
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+override, or else
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+.I oldmaintainer
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+.B =>
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+.I newmaintainer
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+to perform a substitution.
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+.PP
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+The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found
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+in the
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+.I indices
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+directory on any Debian mirror.
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+.
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+.SH SEE ALSO
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+.BR dpkg\-packages (1),
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+.BR dpkg\-scansources (1),
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+.BR apt\-ftparchive (1).
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Guillem Jover