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deb-origin(5) dpkg suite deb-origin(5)
deb-origin - Vendor-specific information files
/usr/local/etc/dpkg/origins/filename
The files in /usr/local/etc/dpkg/origins can provide information
about various vendors that are providing Debian packages. These
files are usually used both to determine the behavior of tools and
resulting contents during package builds targeting a specific
vendor, and to describe the provenance of packages.
Packages can explicitly declare their vendor by including an
Origin field, otherwise the vendor for a package without such
field is assumed to be the one pointed to by the default origin
symbolic link.
They contain a number of fields, or comments when the line starts
with ‘#’. Each field begins with a tag, such as Vendor or Parent,
followed by a colon and the body of the field. Fields are
delimited only by field tags. In other words, field text may be
multiple lines in length, but the tools will join lines when
processing the body of the field.
The file should be named according to the vendor name. The usual
convention is to name the vendor file using the vendor name in all
lowercase, but some variation is permitted.
Namely (since dpkg 1.21.10), first, non-alphanumeric characters
(‘[^A-Za-z0-9]’) are mapped to dashes (‘-’), then the resulting
name will be tried in sequence by lower-casing it, keeping it as
is, lower-casing then capitalizing it (that is upper-casing the
first character), and only capitalizing it.
Vendor: vendor-name (required)
The value of this field determines the vendor name.
Vendor-URL: vendor-url
The value of this field determines the vendor URL.
Bugs: bug-url
The value of this field determines the type and address of the
bug tracking system used by this vendor. It can be a mailto
URL or a debbugs URL (e.g., debbugs://bugs.debian.org/).
Parent: vendor-name
The value of this field determines the vendor name of the
vendor that this vendor derives from.
Vendor: Debian
Vendor-URL: https://www.debian.org/
Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org
dpkg-vendor(1).
This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-08-06.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
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corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
1.22.12-10-g32fee 2025-01-01 deb-origin(5)
Pages that refer to this page: dpkg-vendor(1), deb822(5)
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