On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:30:04PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> [2004.12.31.1124 +0100]: > > Aah, well there's the thing -- we're talking absolute minimum > > requirements > > Were we? Yeah, at least I think so. <grin> The original message in the thread (http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/12/msg00407.html) started "We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating .deb package". I took "absolutely necessary" to mean "the bare minimum required". The OP hasn't reappeared here, so there's been no clarification on the point. > > > ed(1), tar(1), dpkg-deb. > > gzip and (BSD) ar can replace dpkg-deb, I think. > > sure, but is there a BSD ar in Debian? No idea. That still feels like an incredibly weird requirement to me, BTW. What's wrong with GNU ar, considering that we use everything else GNU... - Matt
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