Bug#161593: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive fumbles on signed debs
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 01:25:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:00:48AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Shouldn't apt be a bit more flexible, especially if dpkg is going to be?
> >
> > > i *think* the conclusion was that in general apt will only support
> > > the BSD format
> >
> > Why?
>
> I'm still waiting for an answer to these questions.
>
> One of the selling points of the Debian package format is that it can be
> manipulated with "standard tools".
manipulated != created
debsigs is an official creator. Therefor, it *must* not put / on the end of
the member names.
> Apt refusing to deal with ar files that have the Debian components in
> the proper order, but which were generated by the only ar program that
> Debian provides is *perverse*.
This is true. But debsigs is still buggy.
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