Bug#688896: This is a bad idea
Hi Laurent,
I had a look at fpm a while back, but the way it's implemented makes it
a pretty bad idea, in my opinion. It will generate a .deb file by
running tar and ar etc manually, completely bypassing what dpkg does.
While this happens to work and *might* be the right thing to do on
non-Debian systems, I don't think it's something a tool in Debian should
do. Please consider at least patching it so it uses dpkg behind the
radar, rather than trying to bypass it entirely.
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