[Reproducible-commits] [dpkg] 19/63: man: Clarify that deb-symbols(5) documents the binary format subset

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commit b66ea0592eecdfe323a6f0f4c8a74111b5d01953
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Feb 17 00:19:42 2016 +0100

    man: Clarify that deb-symbols(5) documents the binary format subset
    
    The template symbol files are described in dpkg-gensymbols(1).
    
    Closes: #795163
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 debian/changelog  | 3 +++
 man/deb-symbols.5 | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5ad6461..ebc071b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ dpkg (1.18.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Clarify that packages are only automatically forgotten by dpkg if they
       contain no user data, such as package selections. Closes: #813179
     - Fix documentation for package flags in dpkg(1).
+    - Clarify that deb-symbols(5) documents the binary format subset, and
+      the template symbol files are described in dpkg-gensymbols(1).
+      Closes: #795163
 
   [ Updated programs translations ]
   * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
diff --git a/man/deb-symbols.5 b/man/deb-symbols.5
index 4b0415c..335666a 100644
--- a/man/deb-symbols.5
+++ b/man/deb-symbols.5
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ deb\-symbols \- Debian's extended shared library information file
 symbols
 .
 .SH DESCRIPTION
+The symbol files are shipped in Debian binary packages, and its format
+is a subset of the template symbol files used by \fBdpkg\-gensymbols\fP(1)
+in Debian source packages.
+.P
 The format for an extended shared library dependency information entry
 in these files is:
 .PP

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