Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:40:08PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> > If you define "easy" as within reach of "dpkg-deb -x"... I don't.
> > "dpkg-deb -I" is easy.
>
> I may not have undestood, but you don't need to extract the package: if
> you want a quick way to have the copyright file, you can unpack the package
> with `ar' and extract the file from data.tar.gz.
> I never needed this, but i think there are some libraries to access ar
> archives and then the tar archive from a c program (and probably from other
> languages).
Yes, but that means extraction of possibly huge data.tar.gz, versus
extracting a much tinier control.tar.gz.
> IMHO an URI filed does not make sense in the package control file,
By what standards? Would you remove the extended description as well, then?
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