On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:00:48AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > Hmm, no idea. ar t doesn't show those. I can see them in the raw file > > though. > > > > Question is, does this violate the dpkg/ar spec and should debsigs be > > fixed, or apt (or both..). > > 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? -- G. Branden Robinson | It's like I have a shotgun in my Debian GNU/Linux | mouth, I've got my finger on the branden@debian.org | trigger, and I like the taste of http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | the gunmetal. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
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