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5.6.16 ‘Format’
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In Note: .changes. files, this field declares the format version of
that file.  The syntax of the field value is the same as that of a Note:
package version number. except that no epoch or Debian revision is
allowed.  The format described in this document is 1.8.

In Note: .dsc Debian source control. files, this field declares the
format of the source package.  The field value is used by programs
acting on a source package to interpret the list of files in the source
package and determine how to unpack it.  The syntax of the field value
is a numeric major revision, a period, a numeric minor revision, and
then an optional subtype after whitespace, which if specified is an
alphanumeric word in parentheses.  The subtype is optional in the syntax
but may be mandatory for particular source format revisions.  (1)

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   (1) The source formats currently supported by the Debian archive
software are ‘1.0’, ‘3.0 (native)’, and ‘3.0 (quilt)’.