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5.7 User-defined fields
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Additional user-defined fields may be added to the source package
control file.  Such fields will be ignored, and not copied to (for
example) binary or Debian source control files or upload control files.

If you wish to add additional unsupported fields to these output files
you should use the mechanism described here.

Fields in the main source control information file with names starting
‘X’, followed by one or more of the letters ‘BCS’ and a hyphen ‘-’, will
be copied to the output files.  Only the part of the field name after
the hyphen will be used in the output file.  Where the letter ‘B’ is
used the field will appear in binary package control files, where the
letter ‘S’ is used in Debian source control files and where ‘C’ is used
in upload control (‘.changes’) files.

For example, if the main source information control file contains the
field

     XBS-Comment: I stand between the candle and the star.

then the binary and Debian source control files will contain the field

     Comment: I stand between the candle and the star.