Dpkg Format question

[Peter Weiss <pw@InterFace-AG.com>]

Hello,

    I've a design question relying to the debian package format:

    A .deb file is an ar-archive and some .tgz files in it. So far so
    good. Why does debian take 2 utilities (tar and ar) with different file
    formats to build a package?

    (I don't want to change a thing here, I'm just interested in the
    technical reasons behind this).

            TIA -- Peter

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