apt-extracttemplates

[Michael Koehne <kraehe@copyleft.de>]

Moin Deity,

  I have a problem with apt-extracttemplates and a hand made Debian package.
  I've used tar and ar to build it, and now apt-extracttemplates tells :

bakunin:/opt/build # apt-extracttemplates hercules-os360_2001.231-4.deb 
E: hercules-os360_2001.231-4.deb not a valid DEB package.
bakunin:/opt/build # 

  This may be because 'GNU ar 2.11.90.0.7' places a trailing '/'-character
  in their archive, while Debian is'nt. Readin the 'ar' directory was the
  last action apt-extracttemplates did before raising the error, if I ask
  strace. Could this be ? How to solve this 'new to me' incompatibility ?

Bye Michael
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