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)






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