README for Debian package control files
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Debian package control files have .dsc as an extension.

Fields are as listed in
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ch-controlfields.html

Each field consists of a name, followed by a colon and the value. It
ends at the end of the line.  Horizontal whitespace (spaces and tabs)
may occur before or after the value and is ignored there; it is
conventional to put a single space after the colon.


Lines 1-5 are the control information for the source package. Line 1
is the name of the source package.

Lines 7-11 are the control information for the binary package. 

Line 10 is the short description. Most peoples screens are 80 columns
wide so this shouldn't be longer that about 50 characters. Lets change
it to "an empire-building strategy game"

Line 11 is where the long description goes. This should be a paragraph
which gives more detail about the package. Column 1 of each line
should be empty. There should be no blank lines. Put a . in column 2
to simulate this.

Here is a sample control file (numbers are shown for reference only):

1   Source: empire
2   Section: games
3   Priority: extra
4   Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
5   Standards-Version: 2.3.0.0
6   
7   Package: empire
8   Architecture: any
9   Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
10  Description: an empire-building strategy game
11   A solitaire empire game (sometimes called 'VMS Empire'), colorized and
11a  speed tuned and with a save-interval option.
11b  .
11c  In this game a player has to try to build and defend an empire.
