# dpkg manual page - deb-origin(5)
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=encoding utf8

=head1 NAME

deb-origin - Vendor-specific information files

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<%PKGCONFDIR%/origins/>I<filename>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The files in B<%PKGCONFDIR%/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 B<Origin> field,
otherwise the vendor for a package without such field is assumed to be the
one pointed to by the F<default> origin symbolic link.

They contain a number of fields, or comments when the line starts with
‘B<#>’.
Each field begins with a tag, such as B<Vendor> or B<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
(‘B<[^A-Za-z0-9]>’) are mapped to dashes (‘B<->’), 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.

=head1 FIELDS

=over

=item B<Vendor:> I<vendor-name> (required)

The value of this field determines the vendor name.

=item B<Vendor-URL:> I<vendor-url>

The value of this field determines the vendor URL.

=item B<Bugs:> I<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/).

=item B<Parent:> I<vendor-name>

The value of this field determines the vendor name of the vendor that
this vendor derives from.

=back

=head1 EXAMPLE

 Vendor: Debian
 Vendor-URL: https://www.debian.org/
 Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<dpkg-vendor(1)>.
