Bug#688220: debian-policy: Typo in path to shlibs files in /var/lib/dpkg/info (8.6.4.1)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso a écrit :

>> --- a/policy.sgml
>> +++ b/policy.sgml
>> @@ -6694,7 +6694,7 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1)
>>  		    The <file>shlibs</file> control files for all the
>>  		    packages currently installed on the system.  These are
>>  		    normally found
>> -		    in <file>/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.symbols</file>, but
>> +		    in <file>/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs</file>, but
>>  		    packages should not rely on this and instead should
>>  		    use <tt>dpkg-query --control-path <var>package</var>
>>  		    shlibs</tt> if for some reason these files need to be
[...]
> I have corrected the typo in the Policy.  Sorry Salvatore, I did not
> realise on time that your patch was a Git patch, so the commit is on
> my name, but you are properly thanked in the changelog and the commit
> message.

For future reference, you can set (or reset) the author of a commit
with

	git commit --author='Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>'

or

	git commit --amend --author='Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>'

before pushing.  Once you've pushed, it's history, though.

> For the other patch, since dpkg in Sid is still version 1.16.x, let's
> wait a moment ?  I am retitling this bug to show its main subject
> now that the typo is fixed.

Thanks.  Policy should probably just say something like

	These files can be read using
	<tt>dpkg-query --control-show <var>package</var> shlibs</tt>.