From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] man/man7/suffixes.7: Clarify Debian artifacts description
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 00:10:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agECCxJPoa4zXefb@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260509185022.289672-4-guillem@debian.org>
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Hi Guillem,
On 2026-05-09T20:50:22+0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> From: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
>
> 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 <guillem@hadrons.org>
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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-10 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-09 18:50 [PATCH 0/3] dpkg/Debian related terminology improvements/fixes Guillem Jover
2026-05-09 18:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] */: Say OpenPGP instead of PGP Guillem Jover
2026-05-10 22:06 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-05-09 18:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] man/man7/suffixes.7: Add xz suffixes Guillem Jover
2026-05-10 22:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-05-09 18:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] man/man7/suffixes.7: Clarify Debian artifacts description Guillem Jover
2026-05-10 22:10 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
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