Re: Not a valid DEB package error

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:

> * Mugurel Tudor (mugurelu@go.ro) [050125 16:20]:
>> În data de Ma, 25-01-2005 la 16:57 +0200, Mugurel Tudor a scris:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I created some DEB packages, and everything is OK with one exception:
>> > for every package that I created, at instalation time, I get the
>> > following error (on Debian Stable and also on Debian Unstable):
>
>> I have to mention also that I created the package with ar (the version
>> from debian). I put together a debian_binary, a control.tar.gz and a
>> data.tar.gz with something like this:
>> 
>> ar cr foo-1.1.3-4.deb debian_binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
>
> That is known to chope apt, as the gnu-ar produces filenames with a
> trailing '/' and has a translation table at the end.

Patch for it is in the BTS too.

> Cheers,
> Andi

MfG
        Goswin