> Hmm, no idea. ar t doesn't show those. I can see them in the raw file > though. > > Question is, does this violate the dpkg/ar spec and should debsigs be > fixed, or apt (or both..). according to Jason: dpkg originally used the BSD ar 'standard', whose encoding does not put / at the end of ar archives. SVr4/GNU ar puts the /s there (and has other encoding differences). apt only supports the BSD format. As did dpkg, until recently it started supporting decoding a bit of the GNU format. i *think* the conclusion was that in general apt will only support the BSD format (i.e. debsigs should be fixed). For this particular / issue we can easily patch apt to handle it (in fact I checked in and later reverted a patch to do this last night.. can repatch if needed :) so i guess we should reassign this to debsigs. randolph
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