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| -rw-r--r-- | deb-view.el | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian-el.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 3 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/deb-view.el b/deb-view.el index 6d6515b..6223258 100644 --- a/deb-view.el +++ b/deb-view.el @@ -48,14 +48,8 @@ ;; Required programs: ar, gzip. ;; Optionally required programs: nroff for formatting man pages. -;; Optionally required programs: dpkg-deb for old-style binary .deb files. ;; Optionally required programs: w3-mode for viewing HTML pages. -;; For new-style .deb files (2.0), dpkg-deb isn't used. Therefore -;; deb-view should work on any platform with the ar command, although -;; "ar -p" doesn't seem to work for .deb files on Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. -;; It works on Solaris 2.6, SGI's IRIX 6.1 and 6.2, and Linux, of course. - ;; Old-style .deb files require the dpkg-deb program. I don't know how to ;; extract control.tar.gz from these deb files, so you only get to see ;; the package control file, but nothing else such as the install scripts. @@ -63,6 +57,8 @@ ;; The data file is still viewable thanks to the "dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile" ;; option. +;; For new-style .deb files (2.0), dpkg-deb is now used as well. + ;;; Installation: ;; 1) Quick test to see if you like deb-view. diff --git a/debian-el.texi b/debian-el.texi index 37b53c6..adac82f 100644 --- a/debian-el.texi +++ b/debian-el.texi @@ -222,13 +222,11 @@ tar-mode. See tar-mode for info. @table @samp @item nroff for formatting man pages. -@item dpkg-deb -for old-style binary .deb files. @item w3-mode for viewing HTML pages. @end table -For new-style .deb files (2.0), dpkg-deb isn't used. +@strong{Note:} Since version 37.3, dpkg-deb is required. @menu * deb-view configuration:: diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 043d2e4..e6759db 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ debian-el (37.4) experimental; urgency=medium * Add missing depends on xz-utils; this was previously a Pre-Depends when this package was built from emacs-goodies-el but it doesn't need to be anymore. + * Update documentation for deb-view to note dependence on dpkg-deb - -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:21:57 -0300 + -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:37:19 -0300 debian-el (37.3) experimental; urgency=medium |