feat: add support for additional fields in Debian control files #491
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Debian control files (DCF) have a number of optional fields -- including "Bugs" and "Tags" -- that are used by many existing packages. The original
fpm
supports adding arbitrary fields to DCFs with the--deb-field
flag, but until now it was not possible to do so withnfpm
.This PR introduces a new deb-specific override,
fields
, that simply translates key-value pairs from a map directly into the DCF.Given the following
nfpm
config file entry:The resulting DCF would contain the entry
To avoid generating malformed DCFs, we simply ignore empty entries.
This PR includes unit tests and updates to the website documentation.
Closes #490.