Re: Strange Dependancies
> I got a bug report effectively saying that dpkg permits this. Till then I
> had thought it was invalid. only xzip and sgml-tools make use of this.
>
> Thought some of you who write scripts to look at the archive would like to
> know..
>
> I have a verifying parser and normalizing emitter which corrects many many
> oddball constructs that dpkg accepts if anyone is interested.
I think we should have a more formal definition of Debian's files, and
which is the right way to parse them...
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