On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 06:19:54PM +0100, Beatrice Torracca wrote: > «The value should be a normal URI to a text file, expect that package > specific data is replaced with the placeholder > <literal>@CHANGEPATH@</literal>. The value for it is: 1. if the package is > from a component (e.g. <literal>main</literal>) this is the first part > otherwise it is omitted, 2. the first letter of source package name, expect > if the source package name starts with '<literal>lib</literal>' in which case > it will be the first four letters. 3. The complete source package name. 4. > the complete name again and 5. the source version.» > > I think both occurrence of "expect" should be instead "except".
Right! > Afterwards in the same page there is: > > «Package action lines consist of five fields in Version 2: old version, > direction of version change (< for upgrades, > for downgrades, = for no > change), new version, action.» > > Unless I am missing something those are only 4 fields, not 5 (1 old version, > 2 direction of change, 3 new version, 4 action). (Maybe it was related to > Version 3 with the Multiarch field too??, just a thought, I am not sure). You aren't missing something, the sentence is: The first (and therefore fifth) field is the package name… > Very shortly after that there is a quote missing (the opening quote for the > type "foreign" in > «<para>In Version 3 after each version field follows the architecture > of this version, which is "-" if there is no version, and a field showing > the MultiArch type "same", foreign", "allowed" or "none".» Added. > I hope I am not wasting your time. Of course you aren't. These silly mistakes shouldn't be in files we hand out – as that is wasting *your* time… so, sorry about that & thanks for the report and [informal] patch! Best regards David Kalnischkies
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