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NAME
Config::Model::models::Dpkg::Control::Source - Configuration class Dpkg::Control::Source
DESCRIPTION
Configuration classes used by Config::Model
Elements
Source - source package name
Source package name. Defaults to the name of the current directory or undef if the directory name does
not match Debian requirements for a source package. Mandatory. Type uniline.
Note: Source is computed with
use Cwd; my $res = getcwd =~ m!/([a-z0-9][a-z0-9+.-]+)$! ? $1 : undef;
and with:
•
debhelper-version
Debhelper version. This parameter is hidden because it does not exist in control. It's used to drive warp
mechanism for parameters that depend on debhelper version. Optional. Type integer.
default value :
0
X-Style - Uncompromising file formatting of Debian packaging files
Uncompromising file formatting of Debian packaging files
By using it, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting. In return, the formatter gives
you speed, determinism, and freedom from style discussions about formatting.
The "black" style is inspired by the "black" Python code formatter. As with "black", the style will
evolve over time. Optional. Type uniline.
Standards-Version - Debian policy version number this package complies to
This field indicates the Debian policy version number this package complies to.
Before updating this field, please read upgrading-checklist <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-
policy/upgrading-checklist.html> to know what changes came with a new policy version number and apply the
required changes (if any) to your package. Mandatory. Type uniline.
Maintainer - package maintainer's name and email address
The package maintainer's name and email address. The name must come first, then the email address inside
angle brackets <> (in RFC822 format).
If the maintainer's name contains a full stop then the whole field will not work directly as an email
address due to a misfeature in the syntax specified in RFC822; a program using this field as an address
must check for this and correct the problem if necessary (for example by putting the name in round
brackets and moving it to the end, and bringing the email address forward). Optional. Type uniline.
Note: Maintainer is computed with
my $name = $ENV{DEBFULLNAME};
my $email = $ENV{DEBEMAIL} ;
my $ret;
$ret = "$name <$email>" if $name and $email;
$ret;
and with:
•
Uploaders
Optional. Type list of uniline.
Section
The packages in the archive areas main, contrib and non-free are grouped further into sections to
simplify handling.
The archive area and section for each package should be specified in the package's Section control record
(see Section 5.6.5 <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#section>). However, the maintainer of the
Debian archive may override this selection to ensure the consistency of the Debian distribution. The
Section field should be of the form:
• section if the package is in the main archive area,
• area/section if the package is in the contrib or non-free archive areas.
Optional. Type uniline.
default value :
misc
XS-Testsuite - name of the non regression test suite
Enable a test suite to be used with this package. For more details see README.package-tests.rst
<https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/plain/doc/README.package-tests.rst>
Deprecated Optional. Type uniline.
Testsuite - name of the non regression test suite
Enable a test suite to be used with this package. For more details see README.package-tests.rst
<https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/blob/master/doc/README.package-tests.rst> Optional. Type
uniline.
Note: Testsuite is migrated with '$xs_testsuite' and with:
• $xs_testsuite => "- XS-Testsuite"
XS-Autobuild - Allow automatic build of non-free or contrib package
Read the full description from section 5.10.5 <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-
reference/pkgs.html#non-free-buildd> in Debian developer reference. Optional. Type boolean.
default value :
0
Priority
Optional. Type enum. choice: 'required', 'important', 'standard', 'optional', 'extra'.
upstream_default value :
optional
Here are some explanations on the possible values:
'extra'
This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, important, standard or optional
priorities, or are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have specialized
requirements (such as packages containing only detached debugging symbols).
'important'
Important programs, including those which one would expect to find on any Unix-like system. If the
expectation is that an experienced Unix person who found it missing would say "What on earth is going
on, where is foo?", it must be an important package.[5] Other packages without which the system will
not run well or be usable must also have priority important. This does not include Emacs, the X
Window System, TeX or any other large applications. The important packages are just a bare minimum of
commonly-expected and necessary tools.
'optional'
(In a sense everything that isn't required is optional, but that's not what is meant here.) This is
all the software that you might reasonably want to install if you didn't know what it was and don't
have specialized requirements. This is a much larger system and includes the X Window System, a full
TeX distribution, and many applications. Note that optional packages should not conflict with each
other.
'required'
Packages which are necessary for the proper functioning of the system (usually, this means that dpkg
functionality depends on these packages). Removing a required package may cause your system to
become totally broken and you may not even be able to use dpkg to put things back, so only do so if
you know what you are doing. Systems with only the required packages are probably unusable, but they
do have enough functionality to allow the sysadmin to boot and install more software.
'standard'
These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited character-mode system. This is what
will be installed by default if the user doesn't select anything else. It doesn't include many large
applications.
Build-Driver - Which build-driver implementation dpkg should use for the package build
The name of the build driver that dpkg (`dpkg-buildpackage`) will use for assembling the package.
Optional. Type uniline.
upstream_default value :
debian-rules
Build-Depends - List of package required during clean or build of architecture-dependent packages
List of packages that must be installed:
• during clean
• to build architecture-dependent binaries ("Architecture: any" or specific architectures).
Technically, these packages must be installed for the following build targets: clean, build-arch, and
binary-arch. See build target <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#relationships-between-source-
and-binary-packages-build-depends-build-depends-indep-build-depends-arch-build-conflicts-build-conflicts-
indep-build-conflicts-arch>.
On the other hand, the list of packages that must be installed to build architecture-independent binaries
("Architecture: all") should be listed in "Build-Depends-Indep" field.
Including a dependency in this field does not have the exact same effect as including it in both Build-
Depends-Arch and Build-Depends-Indep, because the dependency also needs to be satisfied when building the
source package.
See also deb-src-control <https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html> man
page.
This parameter can aslo have restriction formula. For instance:
Build-Depends: foo (>= 1.0) [i386 arm] <!nocheck> <!cross>, bar
See debian wiki <https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec#Build-
Depends_syntax_extension_.28restriction_formulas.29> for more details. Optional. Type list of uniline.
Build-Depends-Arch - List of package required to build architecture-dependent packages
Same as Build-Depends, but these packages are only needed when building the architecture dependent
packages. The Build-Depends are also installed in this case.
See deb-src-control man page <https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html>
for details. Optional. Type list of uniline.
Build-Depends-Indep - List of package required during build of architecture-independent package
List of packages that must be installed to build architecture-independent binaries ("Architecture: all").
Technically, these packages must be installed for the following build targets: build, build-indep,
binary, and binary-indep. See build target <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#relationships-
between-source-and-binary-packages-build-depends-build-depends-indep-build-depends-arch-build-conflicts-
build-conflicts-indep-build-conflicts-arch>.
Note that packages required during "clean" phase must be declared in "Build-Depends" field.
This parameter can aslo have restriction formula. For instance:
Build-Depends: foo (>= 1.0) [i386 arm] <!nocheck> <!cross>, bar
See debian wiki <https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec#Build-
Depends_syntax_extension_.28restriction_formulas.29> for more details. Optional. Type list of uniline.
Build-Conflicts - List of package not wanted during clean or build of architecture-dependent packages
List of packages that must be missing (i.e. not installed):
• during clean
• to build architecture-dependent binaries ("Architecture: any" or specific architectures).
Technically, these packages must not be installed for the following build targets: clean, build-arch, and
binary-arch. See build target <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#relationships-between-source-
and-binary-packages-build-depends-build-depends-indep-build-depends-arch-build-conflicts-build-conflicts-
indep-build-conflicts-arch>.
On the other hand, the list of packages that must not be installed to build architecture-independent
binaries ("Architecture: all") should be listed in "Build-Conflicts-Indep" field.
Including a dependency in this list has the same effect as including it in both Build-Conflicts-Arch and
Build-Conflicts-Indep, with the additional effect of being used for source-only builds.
See deb-src-control man page <https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html>
for details. Optional. Type list of uniline.
Build-Conflicts-Arch - List of package not wanted during build of architecture dependent packages
List of packages that must be missing (i.e. not installed) to build archictecture dependent binaries
See deb-src-control man page <https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-src-control.5.en.html>
for details. Optional. Type list of uniline.
Build-Conflicts-Indep - List of package not wanted during build of architecture-independent packages
List of packages that must be missing (i.e. not installed) to build binaries with arch set to "all.
Technically, these packages must not be installed for the following build targets: build, build-indep,
binary, and binary-indep. See build target <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#relationships-
between-source-and-binary-packages-build-depends-build-depends-indep-build-depends-arch-build-conflicts-
build-conflicts-indep-build-conflicts-arch>.
Note that packages not wanted during "clean" phase must be declared in "Build-Conflicts" field.
Optional. Type list of uniline.
Built-Using - Additional source packages used to build the binary
Some binary packages incorporate parts of other packages when built but do not have to depend on those packages. Examples include linking with static libraries
or incorporating source code from another package during the build. In this case, the source packages of those other packages are a required part of the complete source (the binary package is not reproducible without them).
A Built-Using field must list the corresponding source package for any such binary package incorporated
during the build, including an exactly equal ("=") version relation on the version that was used to build
that binary package[57].
A package using the source code from the gcc-4.6-source binary package built from the gcc-4.6 source
package would have this field in its control file:
Built-Using: gcc-4.6 (= 4.6.0-11)
A package including binaries from grub2 and loadlin would have this field in its control file:
Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
I< Optional. Type list of uniline. >
Vcs-Browser - web-browsable URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a https:// URL pointing to a web-browsable copy of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available.
The information is meant to be useful for the final user, willing to browse the latest work done on the
package (e.g. when looking for the patch fixing a bug tagged as pending in the bug tracking system).
Optional. Type uniline.
Note: Vcs-Browser is computed with
$pkgname =~ /r-cran-/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-perl/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-ruby-extras/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-javascript/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /debian-med-packaging/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /team\@neuro.debian.net/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/neurodebian-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /debian-science-maintainers/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-phototools-devel/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/debian-phototools-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-java-maintainers/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/$pkgname"
: $maintainer =~ /r-pkg-team/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/$pkgname"
: undef ;
and with:
• $maintainer => "- Maintainer"
• $pkgname => "- Source"
Vcs-Arch - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different VCS
fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the location
pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Vcs-Bzr - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different VCS
fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the
location pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Vcs-Cvs - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different VCS
fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the location
pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Vcs-Darcs - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different
VCS fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the
location pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Vcs-Git - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different VCS
fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the location
pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Note: Vcs-Git is computed with
$pkgname =~ /r-cran-/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-perl/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-ruby-extras/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-javascript/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /debian-med-packaging/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /team\@neuro.debian.net/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/neurodebian-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /debian-science-maintainers/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-phototools-devel/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/debian-phototools-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /pkg-java-maintainers/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/$pkgname.git"
: $maintainer =~ /r-pkg-team/ ? "https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/$pkgname.git"
: '' ;
and with:
• $maintainer => "- Maintainer"
• $pkgname => "- Source"
Vcs-Hg - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different
VCS fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the location
pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Vcs-Mtn - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different
VCS fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the
location pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
Vcs-Svn - URL of the VCS repository
Value of this field should be a string identifying unequivocally the location of the Version Control
System repository used to maintain the given package, if available. * identify the Version Control
System; currently the following systems are supported by the package tracking system: arch, bzr (Bazaar),
cvs, darcs, git, hg (Mercurial), mtn (Monotone), svn (Subversion). It is allowed to specify different
VCS fields for the same package: they will all be shown in the PTS web interface.
The information is meant to be useful for a user knowledgeable in the given Version Control System and
willing to build the current version of a package from the VCS sources. Other uses of this information
might include automatic building of the latest VCS version of the given package. To this end the
location pointed to by the field should better be version agnostic and point to the main branch (for VCSs
supporting such a concept). Also, the location pointed to should be accessible to the final user;
fulfilling this requirement might imply pointing to an anonymous access of the repository instead of
pointing to an SSH-accessible version of the same. Optional. Type uniline.
DM-Upload-Allowed - The package may be uploaded by a Debian Maintainer
If this field is present, then any Debian Maintainers listed in the Maintainer or Uploaders fields may
upload the package directly to the Debian archive. For more information see the "Debian Maintainer" page
at the Debian Wiki - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer. Deprecated Optional. Type uniline.
Homepage
Optional. Type uniline.
Bugs - Custom bugtracker URL (for third-party packages)
Provide a custom bug tracker URL
This field is *not* used by packages uploaded to Debian or most derivatives as the distro tooling has a
default bugtracker built in. It is primarily useful for third-party provided packages so that bug
reporting tooling can redirect the user to their bug tracker. Optional. Type uniline.
Origin - Custom origin (for third-party packages)
Declare the origin of the package.
This field is *not* used by packages uploaded to Debian or most derivatives as the origin would be the
distribution. It is primarily useful for third-party provided packages as some tools will detect this
field and change behavior, for instance by informing the user that the package is a third-party package.
Optional. Type uniline.
Rules-Requires-Root - Defines if access to root (or fakeroot) is required during build.
Depending on the value of the Rules-Requires-Root field, the package builder (e.g. dpkg-buildpackage) may
run the debian/rules target as an unprivileged user and provide a gain root command. This command allows
the debian/rules target to run particular subcommands under (fake)root. Can be 'no', 'binary-targets'
(default)), or a space separated list of keywords containing a forward slash (e.g. "/").
For details, see section 5.6.31.2 of Debian policy <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-
controlfields.html#rules-requires-root> Optional. Type uniline.
Here are some explanations on the possible values:
'.+/'
Space separated list of keywords. These keywords must always contain a forward slash, which sets them
apart from the other possible values of Rules-Requires-Root. When this list is provided, the builder
must provide a gain root command (as defined in debian/rules and Rules-Requires-Root) or pretend that
the value was set to binary-targets, and both the builder and the packageâs debian/rules script
must downgrade accordingly.
'binary-targets'
(Default) Declares that the package will need the root (or fakeroot) when either of the binary,
binary-arch or binary-indep targets are called. This is how every tool behaved before this field was
defined.
'no'
Declares that neither root nor fakeroot is required. Package builders (e.g. dpkg-buildpackage) may
choose to invoke any target in debian/rules with an unprivileged user.
X-DH-Compat - Declare debhelper compat level (used for experimental compat levels)
The "X-DH-Compat" field is accepted by "debhelper" as a way to declare the "debhelper compat level".
Though, whenever possible, it is better to add "debhelper-compat (= N)" to "Build-Depends" as a way to
declare the debhelper compat level.
This field does not count as a build-dependency, so the package will still need an explicit build-
dependency on "debhelper" on top of this field. As of "debhelper compat" level 14, this is the only
supported way to request a "debhelper compat" level that is not yet stable.
Example:
Source: foo
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 13.26~)
# Use the experimental compat 14
X-DH-Compat: 14
# ...
This field replaces the "debian/compat" file that was the prior way of declaring unstable and
experimental "debhelper compat" levels. Optional. Type uniline.
X-Cargo-Crate - Name of the Rust cargo crate packaged in this source package
This fields contains the name of the Rust cargo crate, which is packaged in this source package.
It is used by Debian's Rust tooling to reliably identify the crate when it needs it. The source package
name is not always sufficient for this purpose. As an example, the package name for the `utf-8` crate can
both be read as `utf` with a major version of `8` or a as the crate name `utf-8`. This field is used to
avoid the ambiguity. It is recommended to always include it for Rust packages. Optional. Type uniline.
XS-Python-Version
Deprecated Optional. Type uniline.
X-Python-Version - supported versions of Python
This field specifies the versions of Python (not versions of Python 3) supported by the source package.
When not specified, they default to all currently supported Python (or Python 3) versions. For more
detail, See python policy <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-
module_packages.html#s-specifying_versions> Optional. Type uniline.
upstream_default value :
all
Note: X-Python-Version is migrated with
my $old = $xspython ;
my $new ;
if ($old =~ /,/) {
# list of versions
my @list = sort split /\s*,\s*/, $old ;
$new = ">= ". (shift @list) . ", << " . (pop @list) ;
}
elsif ($old =~ /-/) {
my @list = sort grep { $_ ;} split /\s*-\s*/, $old ;
$new = ">= ". shift @list ;
$new .= ", << ". pop @list if @list ;
}
else {
$new = $old ;
}
$new ;
and with:
• $xspython => "- XS-Python-Version"
X-Python3-Version - supported versions of Python3
This field specifies the versions of Python 3 supported by the package. For more detail, See python
policy <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-
specifying_versions> Optional. Type uniline.
XS-Ruby-Versions
indicate the versions of the interpreter supported by the library. Deprecated Optional. Type uniline.
Synopsis - Common base synopsis for all packages via substvar
NAME
This field contains a human-readable synopsis of the package. However, it is not used directly. Binary
packages can reference it via the "${{source:Synopsis}}" substvars. Without any of these substvars, the
"Synopsis" (part of the "Description" field) of the "Source" stanza remains unused. The Synopsis is a
short "noun-phrase" intended to provide a one-line summary of a package.
The Synopsis is usually displayed in cases where there is limited space such as when reviewing the search
results from "apt search foo". It is often a good idea to imagine that the Synopsis part is inserted
into a sentence like "The package provides {{Synopsis-goes-here}}".
Please see control field doc <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#description>
for more details about the description field and suggestions for how to write it.
Optional. Type string.
Description - Common base description for all packages via substvar
NAME
This field contains a human-readable description of the package. However, it is not used directly.
Binary packages can reference parts it via the "${{source:Extended-Description}}" substvars. Without this
substvars, the "Description" field of the "Source" stanza remains unused.
The Extended Description is a standalone description that should describe what the package does and how
it relates to the rest of the system (in terms of, for example, which subsystem it is which part of).
Please see control field doc <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#description>
for more details about the description field and suggestions for how to write it.
Optional. Type string.
SEE ALSO
• cme
AUTHOR
Dominique Dumont
COPYRIGHT
2010,2011 Dominique Dumont
LICENSE
LGPL2
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