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Diffstat (limited to 'bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx b/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx index 8783b51..9fb93c7 100644 --- a/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx +++ b/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ namespace bpkg // The system package manager implementation for Debian and alike (Ubuntu, // etc) using the APT frontend. // + // NOTE: the below description is also reproduced in the bpkg manual. + // // For background, a library in Debian is normally split up into several // packages: the shared library package (e.g., libfoo1 where 1 is the ABI // version), the development files package (e.g., libfoo-dev), the @@ -73,11 +75,11 @@ namespace bpkg // group (see parse_name_value() for details). // // The Debian package version has the [<epoch>:]<upstream>[-<revision>] form - // (see deb-version(5) for details). If no explicit mapping to bpkg version - // is specified with the debian-to-downstream-version manifest values (or - // alike), then we fallback to using the <upstream> part as bpkg version. If - // explicit mapping is specified, then we match it against the - // [<epoch>:]<upstream> parts ignoring <revision>. + // (see deb-version(5) for details). If no explicit mapping to the bpkg + // version is specified with the debian-to-downstream-version (or alike) + // manifest values or none match, then we fallback to using the <upstream> + // part as the bpkg version. If explicit mapping is specified, then we match + // it against the [<epoch>:]<upstream> parts ignoring <revision>. // struct system_package_status_debian: system_package_status { |