> Apt refusing to deal with ar files that have the Debian components in > the proper order, but which were generated by the only ar program that > Debian provides is *perverse*. The patch to handle the / case in apt is a one-liner. I can commit that (again) into apt... but I agree with Jason's point that we need to be careful about this -- GNU ar format is more than just /, so if we are really commiting to support that, there're many more changes that need to happen in dpkg/apt, and I'm not sure that's where we want to go... it seems to be reasonable that "standard" Debian deb creation tools should create debs in the same format.... debsigs shouldn't be silently converting debs to different ar formats.... randolph
Attachment:
pgpKxqy3UJeKG.pgp
Description: PGP signature