Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper
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- Subject: Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper
- From: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:45:42 -0500
- Message-id: <20010501114542.B18248@molehole.moregruel.net>
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- Reply-to: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
- In-reply-to: <20010430223300.A16070@kukkaruukku.keltti.jyu.fi>; from gaia@iki.fi on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:33:08PM +0300
- References: <871yqlp9r9.fsf@adsl-63-193-247-253.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> <20010423110248.A3304@cip01.physik.uni-freiburg.de> <20010423091432.A17566@molehole.moregruel.net> <20010429171527.C7737@kukkaruukku.keltti.jyu.fi> <20010430000601.E576@kitenet.net> <20010430223300.A16070@kukkaruukku.keltti.jyu.fi>
On 30-Apr-01, 14:33 (CDT), Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> wrote:
> You could probably do without the latter two, but IIRC the deb format
> is internal to dpkg and dpkg-deb is the only supported interface for
> creating debs.
Not true: .deb files are ar(1) archives containing two tar.gz
members. See deb(5). (I suspect that support for signed debs implies
more members, but not a change to the basic format.)
Steve
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