Bug#161593: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive fumbles on signed debs
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > joey@dragon:~package>apt-extracttemplates mindterm_1.2.1-7_all.deb
> > E: mindterm_1.2.1-7_all.deb not a valid DEB package.
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/mindterm_1.2.1-7_all.deb
>
> neat...
>
> a working deb:
> pippin[21:04] build% bin/apt-extracttemplates /tmp/locales_2.2.5-14.3_all.deb
> read name == debian-binary
> read name == control.tar.gz
> read name == data.tar.gz
> locales 2.2.5-14.3 /tmp/template.182200 /tmp/config.182201
>
> your mindterm deb:
> pippin[21:04] build% bin/apt-extracttemplates /tmp/mindterm_1.2.1-7_all.deb
> read name == debian-binary/
> read name == control.tar.gz/
> read name == data.tar.gz/
> read name == _gpgmaint/
> E: /tmp/mindterm_1.2.1-7_all.deb not a valid DEB package.
>
> what's the deal with the /s ?
The ar standard says names are delimited with /
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