Re: dpkg(1) and the "old" .deb format

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 17:04:41 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> >>>>> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>  > [1] Doesn't dpkg even support all the old variants of the deb format?
> 
> 	Surprisingly, it depends on the locale!  Consider, e. g.:
> 
> $ LC_ALL=C dpkg -c \
>       archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/binary/base/dpkg-1.0.0.deb 
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1995-10-01 18:18 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/doc/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/doc/copyright/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1540 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/doc/copyright/dpkg
> …
> $ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 dpkg -c \
>       archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/binary/base/dpkg-1.0.0.deb 
> dpkg-deb: »archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/binary/base/dpkg-1.0.0.deb« ist kein Archiv im Debian-Format
> $ 

Nicely spot, I'm fixing this for my next push. It's anyway a part of
the codebase I had already on my TODO to fix.

thanks,
guillem