[dpkg] 48/192: man: Clarify behavior for dpkg-maintscript-helper

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commit 5fe793718842afc08c81ab6b86209fa959bb9b60
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 9 16:53:28 2017 +0200

    man: Clarify behavior for dpkg-maintscript-helper
    
    Closes: #857852
---
 debian/changelog                | 1 +
 man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.man | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1f48885..5b219a7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ dpkg (1.19.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Document currently accepted syntax for changelogs in deb-changelog(5).
       Closes: #858579
     - Mark source:Version substvar in bold in deb-substvars(5).
+    - Clarify behavior for dpkg-maintscript-helper. Closes: #857852
   * Build system:
     - Require Perl 5.20.2, the version in Debian oldstable (jessie).
     - Use new gcc-7 -Wrestrict and -Wshift-negative-value warnings if
diff --git a/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.man b/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.man
index c3b73ef..0d608ab 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.man
+++ b/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.man
@@ -76,14 +76,16 @@ maintainer scripts in version \fB3.0\-1\fP, should set \fIprior-version\fP
 to \fB3.0\-1~\fP.
 .TP
 .I package
-The package name. When the package is “Multi\-Arch: same” this parameter
+The package name owning the pathname(s).
+When the package is “Multi\-Arch: same” this parameter
 must include the architecture qualifier, otherwise it should \fBnot\fP
 usually include the architecture qualifier (as it would disallow
 cross-grades, or switching from being architecture specific to
 architecture \fBall\fP or vice versa).
 If the parameter is empty or omitted, the \fBDPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE\fP
-and \fBDPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH\fP environment variables (as set by \fBdpkg\fP)
-will be used to generate an arch-qualified package name.
+and \fBDPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH\fP environment variables (as set by \fBdpkg\fP
+when running the maintainer scripts) will be used to generate an
+arch-qualified package name.
 .TP
 .B \-\-
 All the parameters of the maintainer scripts have to be forwarded to the

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