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Bug#521012: [checks/deb-format] "debian-binary" is referred to as "debian-control"



Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.8
Severity: minor

When calling lintian with "lintian -i -C deb-format"
over a malformed package, I get the following output:

E: package: malformed-deb-archive second member data.tar.gz not control.tar.gz
N:
N:    The binary package is not a correctly constructed archive. A binary
N:    Debian package must be an ar archive with exactly three members:
N:    debian-control, control.tar.gz, and data.tar.gz or data.tar.bz2 in
N:    exactly that order. The debian-control member must start with a single
N:    line containing the version number, with a major revision of 2.
(...)

I assume, "debian-control" should be "debian-binary", as stated in deb(5): 
"The first member is named debian-binary and contains a series of lines,
 separated by newlines. Currently only one line is present,  the  format
 version number, 2.0 at the time this manual page was written."




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