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NAME
       deb-control - Debian GNU/Linux

SYNOPSIS
       control

DESCRIPTION
          Debian   `control'   `control'  Package  Version  ()  (
       Description )


       Package: <>


       Version: <>
               (Debian)Debian  `-'

       Maintainer: < email>
              `Joe Bloggs <jbloggs@foo.com>' e-mail

       Description: <>
               <>
              ("Description") '.'


       Section: <>
                `utils' `net'`mail'`text', `x11'

       Priority: <>
                `required'`standard'`optional'`extra'

       Debian Section Priority debian-policy

       Essential: <yes|no>
               `yes' dpkg() Essential

       Architecture: <arch|all>
              Architecture architecture `i386', `m68k',  `sparc',
              `alpha',  `powerpc' all architecture Perl architec-
              ture  all

       Source: <>


       Depends: <>
               Depends () Depends: postinst prerm

       Pre-Depends: <>
                preinst

       Recommends: <>
               Recommends

       Suggests: <>


       Depends , Pre-Depends , Recommends ,  Suggests   (`')  `|'
       `AND' `OR' (OR)

        '>>'()Debian / ">>""<<"">=""<=" "="

       Conflicts: <>
               Conflicts

       Replaces: <>
               Conflicts

       Provides: <>
               sendmailexim (`mail-transport-agent') `mail-trans-
              port-agent' sendmailexim  `|'

       Conflicts , Replaces , Provides ()  Conflicts   `OR'  Con-
       flicts Replaces


       Package: grep
       Essential: yes
       Priority: required
       Section: base
       Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
       Architecture: sparc
       Version: 2.4-1
       Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0.105)
       Provides: rgrep
       Conflicts: rgrep
       Description: GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
        The GNU family of grep utilities may be the "fastest grep in the west".
        GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about
        twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper
        search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being
        considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to
        look at every character. The result is typically many times faster
        than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing
        will run more slowly, however.)


       deb(b), dpkg(g), dpkg-deb(b).


        <ukai@debian.or.jp>



Debian Project             January 2000            DEB-CONTROL(L)