deb-origin(5) dpkg suite deb-origin(5)
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 that are providing Debian packages. These files are usually
used both to determine the behavior of tools and resulting contents
during package builds targeting a specific vendor, and to describe the
provenance of packages.
Packages can explicitly declare their vendor by including an Origin
field, otherwise the vendor for a package without such field is assumed
to be the one pointed to by the default origin symbolic link.
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.
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).
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