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/>


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