Bug#161593: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive fumbles on signed debs
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Randolph Chung wrote:
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> > 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 ?
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> Pretty much what I expected.. I've seen tools mangle AR's before, and I'm
> picky enough about it to not accept the /'s.
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> It would probably be better to fix the debsign program not to change the
> deb output unnecessarily.
Er, dpkg-deb handles /
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