Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > I think this description adapted from the deb-symbols(5) manual page > mislead you into thinking that there were leading spaces before | or * > when in fact there are none.
> I have updated the manual page to make it look like this now: > library-soname main-dependency-template > [| alternative-dependency-template] > [...] > [* field-name: field-value] > [...] > symbol minimal-version [id-of-dependency-template] Thanks, I've now fixed my draft text as well. >> + <example> >> +libGL.so.1 libgl1 >> + | libgl1-mesa-glx #MINVER# > Drop the leading space on that last line. Done. >> + For our example, the <tt>zlib1g</tt> <file>symbols</file> file >> + would contain: >> + <example compact="compact"> >> + * Build-Depends-Package: zlib1g-dev > And here too. Done. >> + </example> >> + (Don't forget the space before the <tt>*</tt> so that it will >> + be parsed as part of the entry for that library.) > And that sentence is then useless (or needs to be reworded). Dropped. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehv35h9k....@windlord.stanford.edu