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📛 NAME

deb-override - Debian archive override file

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command / File	Description
📦 View override file format	override	📋 Whitespace-delimited format with package, priority, section, and optional maintainer-info
🔍 Set global priority	package priority section [maintainer-info]	🏷️ Override per-package priority and section for archive consistency
🔄 Change maintainer mapping	old-maintainer => new-maintainer	👤 Perform maintainer substitution in the override file
📁 Locate official override files	indices directory on Debian mirror	🌐 Contains the override files used to generate official Packages lists

📋 SYNOPSIS

override

📝 DESCRIPTION

While most information about a package can be found in the control file, some is managed centrally by the distribution czars rather than by the maintainer in order to offer some global consistency. This information is found in the override file.

The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are allowed (denoted with a #).

package priority section [maintainer-info]

package is the name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored.

priority and section correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb. The allowed values are specific to each distribution archive.

maintainer-info, if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional override, or else old-maintainer => new-maintainer to perform a substitution.

The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found in the indices directory on any Debian mirror.

🔗 SEE ALSO

dpkg-scanpackages(1), dpkg-scansources(1), apt-ftparchive(1)

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