Re: creating a .deb with only tar and ar

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
    Joey> Does dpkg-deb do something tricky to the format of the ar
    Joey> file when it's creating a .deb? Something that can't be
    Joey> reproduced using standard ar?

Yes. It encodes some bytes in the headers.  Standard ar will ignore
them for extraction but dpkg won't accept a straight 'ar' file as
legit.

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