NAME

       deb-origin - Vendor-specific information files

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/dpkg/origins/filename

DESCRIPTION

       The files in /etc/dpkg/origins can provide information about various vendors who are
       providing Debian packages.

       They contain a number of fields, or comments when the line starts with ‘#’.  Each field
       begins with a tag, such as Vendor or Parent, followed by a colon and the body of the
       field.  Fields are delimited only by field tags.  In other words, field text may be
       multiple lines in length, but the tools will join lines when processing the body of the
       field.

       The file should be named according to the vendor name.  The usual convention is to name
       the vendor file using the vendor name in all lowercase, but some variation is permitted.

       Namely (since dpkg 1.21.10), first, non-alphanumeric characters (‘[^A-Za-z0-9]’) are
       mapped to dashes (‘-’), then the resulting name will be tried in sequence by lower-casing
       it, keeping it as is, lower-casing then capitalizing it (that is upper-casing the first
       character), and only capitalizing it.

       In addition, for historical and backwards compatibility, the name will be tried keeping it
       as is without non-alphanumeric characters remapping, then the resulting name will be tried
       in sequence by lower-casing it, keeping it as is, lower-casing then capitalizing it, and
       only capitalizing it.  And finally the name will be tried by remapping spaces to dashes
       (‘-’), then the resulting name will be tried in sequence by lower-casing it, keeping it as
       is, lower-casing then capitalizing it, and only capitalizing it.

       But these backwards compatible module lookups will be removed during the dpkg 1.22.x
       release cycle.

FIELDS

       Vendor: vendor-name (required)
           The value of this field determines the vendor name.

       Vendor-URL: vendor-url
           The value of this field determines the vendor URL.

       Bugs: bug-url
           The value of this field determines the type and address of the bug tracking system
           used by this vendor.  It can be a mailto URL or a debbugs URL (e.g.,
           debbugs://bugs.debian.org/).

       Parent: vendor-name
           The value of this field determines the vendor name of the vendor that this vendor
           derives from.

EXAMPLE

        Vendor: Debian
        Vendor-URL: https://www.debian.org/
        Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org

SEE ALSO

       dpkg-vendor(1).