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Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting



On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:13:14 +0100
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 22:31:29 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:25:31 +0100 Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:25:59 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > > I'll update deb-gview for its next release, although I'll need some
> > > > real packages using data.tar.bz2 before I can test it.
> > > 
> > > You could repack an existing .deb using dpkg-deb and the -Z option.
> > 
> > deb-gview doesn't repack anything. It inspects the contents of the .deb
> > directly using libarchive. deb-gview does not use dpkg.
> 
> You were asking for a package compressed with something els than gzip
> for testing purposes, I was offering an easy way to get you one from
> any existing package by repacking using dpkg-deb.

Ah, sorry - misunderstood. Thanks.

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