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
next prev 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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