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Diffstat (limited to 'bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx b/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx index 7f91d38..cbf4828 100644 --- a/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx +++ b/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ namespace bpkg // -common packages. They normally have the same version. // // The first group is called the main group and the first package in the - // group is called the main package. + // group is called the main package. Note that all the groups are consumed + // (installed) but only the main group is produced (packaged). // // We allow/recommend specifying the -dev package instead of the main // package for libraries (the name starts with lib), seeing that we are @@ -71,6 +72,13 @@ namespace bpkg // as extras but in the future we may decide to sort them out like the main // 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>. + // struct system_package_status_debian: system_package_status { string main; |