NAME

       deb-override - Debian archive override file

SYNOPSIS

       override

DESCRIPTION

       While most information about a package can be found in the control file, some is managed centrally by the
       distribution czars rather than by the maintainer  in  order  to  offer  some  global  consistency.   This
       information is found in the override file.

       The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are allowed (denoted with a #).

            package priority section [maintainerinfo]

       package  is  the  name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages not found in the tree of
       binary packages are ignored.

       priority and section correspond to the respective control fields  available  in  the  .deb.  The  allowed
       values are listed in the Debian policy.

       maintainerinfo, if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional override, or else
       oldmaintainer => newmaintainer to perform a substitution.

       The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found in the indices directory on  any
       Debian mirror.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg-scanpackages(1), dpkg-scansources(1), apt-ftparchive(1),
       /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/index.html.