Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts
]] Vincent Zweije
> No, this is about packing. Doing packing with dpkg-deb invoking bsdtar
> would either make bsdtar essential, or require that dpkg-deb switch to
> use whatever tar is available.
Why would it require more than dpkg-dev depending on bsdtar? We have
precedence for packages being ok with not depending on everything they
need for all parts of their functionality.
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