Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper
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- Subject: Re: Bug#94827: tktable; Build-Depends: debhelper
- From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:19:03 +0100
- Message-id: <20010501181903.B9164@polya>
- In-reply-to: <20010501114542.B18248@molehole.moregruel.net>; from stevegr@debian.org on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:45:42AM -0500
- 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> <20010501114542.B18248@molehole.moregruel.net>
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:45:42AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> 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.)
AFAIK, ar can't build .debs, even though they use an ar format.
There's a slight difference in the components.
Julian
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