Chapter 5. Control files and their fields

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Package

(mandatory)

Source

Version

(mandatory)

Section

(recommended)

Priority

(recommended)

Architecture

(mandatory)

Essential

Depends

et al

Installed Size

Maintainer

(mandatory)

Description

(mandatory)

5.4 Debian source control files  

.dsc

This file contains a series of fields, identified and separated just like the fields in the control file

of a binary package. The fields are listed below; their syntax is described above, in `Control

files and their fields (from old Packaging Manual)' on page

119

.

Format

Source

(mandatory)

Version

(mandatory)

Maintainer

(mandatory)

Uploaders

Binary

Architecture

Build Depends

et al

Standards Version

(recommended)

Files

(mandatory)

The source package control file is generated by

dpkg source

when it builds the source

archive, from other files in the source package, described above. When unpacking, it is checked

against the files and directories in the other parts of the source package.

5.5 Debian changes files  

.changes

The .changes files are used by the Debian archive maintenance software to pro 

cess updates to packages.

They contain one paragraph which contains information

from the

debian/control

file and other data about the source package gathered via

debian/changelog

and

debian/rules

.

The fields in this file are:

Format

(mandatory)

Date

(mandatory)

Source

(mandatory)

Binary

(mandatory)