Andreas Jellinghaus writes ("Bug#4365: no section and priority in
debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.3.12
>
> dpkg-gencontrol creates no priority and section entries in
> debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control, but theese fields are in debian/files.
> is this ok or is this a bug ?
This is not a bug but a failure to read the documentation - see below.
I'm closing the report.
Ian.
>From the Debian policy manual:
3.1.5 Including Priority and Section in the .deb control file
If a user installs a package which is not part of the standard
distribution, or without downloading and updating from a new Packages
file, the information about the priority and section of a package will
be absent, and the dselect package listing will have the package
listed under `unclassified'. In order to improve this it is
permissible to use the -is, -isp or -ip option to dpkg-gencontrol, so
that the Section and/or Priority is copied into the actual control
information in the .deb file. However, if you do this you should make
sure you keep the information up to date so that users are not shown
conflicting information.
>From dpkg-gencontrol's usage message:
...
-is include section field
-ip include priority field
-isp|-ips include both section and priority
...
>From dpkg-gencontrol(1):
DPKG-GENCONTROL OPTIONS
...
-is, -ip, -isp
Include the Section and Priority fields for this
package from the main source control file in the
binary package control file being generated. Usu-
ally this information is not included here, but
only in the .changes file. -isp includes both
fields, -is only the Section and -ip only the Pri-
ority.
