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From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] man/man7/suffixes.7: Clarify Debian artifacts description
Date: Sat,  9 May 2026 20:50:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260509185022.289672-4-guillem@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260509185022.289672-1-guillem@debian.org>

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
information and format description.

Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
---
 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-09 19:08 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 ` Guillem Jover [this message]
2026-05-10 22:10   ` [PATCH 3/3] man/man7/suffixes.7: Clarify Debian artifacts description Alejandro Colomar

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