On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:24:32 +0200 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression > support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the > current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The > resulting table looks pretty bad: > > <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport> Can you clarify the LFS column please Guillem? How were the packages tested for this support and what are the criteria? > Please help by filling it with either other software that you might > know handles .deb files directly, so that these can get coordinated on > format changes, by filling the '?' in there or by correcting existing > entries (but if in doubt about specific conclusions, please ask here), > or even by actually fixing the software listed there. I should > probably also add other columns, like the type of R/W support, > acceptance of bogus/broken/damaged archives, and similar, but maybe > another day. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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