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| -rw-r--r-- | debhelper.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod index dad286ee..37f649fd 100644 --- a/debhelper.pod +++ b/debhelper.pod @@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ debian/control, debhelper will use debian/foo if no debian/package.foo file can be found. In some rare cases, you may want to have different versions of these files -for different architectures. If files named debian/package.foo.arch -exist, where "arch" is the same as the output of -"dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH", +for different architectures or OSes. If files named debian/package.foo.arch +or debian/package.foo.os exist, where "arch" and "os" are the same as the +output of "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" / +"dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS", then they will be used in preference to other, more general files. In many cases, these config files are used to specify various types of |