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[apt.git] / doc / external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt

diff --git a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt
index 7db1479b23852832a3bdbd7db380603a966fe6f5..5757991a835af14e590cb83d10710a70a58d8d0f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt
+++ b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ External Dependency Solver Protocol".
 
 In the following we use the term **architecture qualified package name**
 (or *arch-qualified package names* for short) to refer to package
-identifiers of the form "arch:package" where "arch" is a dpkg
-architecture and "package" a dpkg package name.
+identifiers of the form "package:arch" where "package" is a package name
+and "arch" a dpkg architecture.
 
 
 ## Components
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ field. The following fields are supported in package stanzas:
 - **APT-Candidate:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values:
   `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, the corresponding package is the APT
   candidate for installation among all available packages with the same
-  name and with the same architecture.
+  name and architecture.
 
 - **APT-Automatic:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values:
   `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, the corresponding package is marked by
@@ -227,6 +227,12 @@ field. The following fields are supported in package stanzas:
   Release file entry (Origin, Label, Codename, etc.) in the format of
   APT_PREFERENCES(5).
 
+- **Source:** (optional) The name of the source package the binary
+  package this record is for was built from.
+  This field does NOT include the version of the source package unlike
+  the Source field in the dpkg database. The version is optionally
+  available in the **Source-Version:** field.
+
 
 ### Answer
 
@@ -236,11 +242,11 @@ An answer from the external solver to APT is either a *solution* or an
 The following invariant on **exit codes** must hold true. When the
 external solver is *able to find a solution*, it will write the solution
 to standard output and then exit with an exit code of 0. When the
-external solver is *unable to find a solution* (and s aware of that), it
-will write an error to standard output and then exit with an exit code
-of 0. An exit code other than 0 will be interpreted as a solver crash
-with no meaningful error about dependency resolution to convey to the
-user.
+external solver is *unable to find a solution* (and is aware of that),
+it will write an error to standard output and then exit with an exit
+code of 0. An exit code other than 0 will be interpreted as a solver
+crash with no meaningful error about dependency resolution to convey to
+the user.
 
 
 #### Solution