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commit 1688895a19eebfe412d3d102d29b7cdf38344ddc
Merge: 5555112 40209ee
Author: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date: Sat Sep 20 06:31:32 2025 +0000
Merge branch 'dashed' into 'master'
Fix man page typo
See merge request apt-team/apt-file!4
commit 40209ee9f63e100d368fa7a9c998c07da76f28f0
Author: Sai Nane <esainane+git@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Mar 10 02:33:38 2025 +0000
Fix man page typo
There's currently two dashes after the command instead of one.
Problems become apparent when using apropos(1), which strips exactly
one dash after the command name to separate the description for
tabular display:
> $ apropos apt
> ...
> apt (8) - command-line interface
> apt-add-repository (1) - Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one
> apt-cache (8) - query the APT cache
> apt-cdrom (8) - APT CD-ROM management utility
> apt-config (8) - APT Configuration Query program
> apt-extracttemplates (1) - Utility to extract debconf config and templates from Debian packages
> apt-file (1) - - APT package searching utility -- command-line interface
> apt-ftparchive (1) - Utility to generate index files
> apt-get (8) - APT package handling utility -- command-line interface
> apt-key (8) - Deprecated APT key management utility
> apt-mark (8) - show, set and unset various settings for a package
> apt-patterns (7) - Syntax and semantics of apt search patterns
> apt-secure (8) - Archive authentication support for APT
> apt-sortpkgs (1) - Utility to sort package index files
> apt-transport-http (1) - APT transport for downloading via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
> apt-transport-https (1) - APT transport for downloading via the HTTP Secure protocol (HTTPS)
> apt-transport-mirror (1) - APT transport for more automated mirror selection
> ...
`apt-file` is the only member of the apt family to do this.
commit 555511287b0b20e6b6249f4bb83e4b8b6c03717d
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date: Mon Nov 28 09:43:10 2022 +0000
Update standards version to 4.6.1, no changes needed.
Changes-By: lintian-brush
Fixes: lintian: out-of-date-standards-version
See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/out-of-date-standards-version.html
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