Bug#718349: lintian: Emits malformed-deb-archive on valid deb packages

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 patch

On 2013-07-30 17:43, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.15
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi!
> 
> The malformed-deb-archive gets emitted on valid .deb archives as
> specified in deb(5) and accepted by dpkg-deb, although those are not
> accepted by the Debian archive. It would be nice to separate what's
> a trully malformed .deb archive from what's not accepted by Debian,
> probably through a profile?
> 
> For example the format explicitly supports extra members after the
> known ones, and additional members inbetween the known ones as long
> as they start with an underscore. Also uncompressed data.tar members
> (as mentioned in another bug report).
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem
> 
> 

Hi,

I am proposing the following patch to resolve this issue.

~Niels



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