Bug#222701: apt-utils: apt-extracttemplates fails to parse debs created/modified by ar
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> The specification for the deb format ("man deb" is the best I could
> find) say "The file is an ar archive with a magic number of !<arch>".
>
> dpkg-deb uses "filename " as the filename string in the deb while
> ar will use "filename/ ". While dpkg happily accepts both formats
> apt-extracttemplates fails to strip the trailing '/' from the
> filename. Since dpkg is the authorative implementation
> apt-extracttemplates should follow its lead and also support both.
apt-extracttemplates is wrong. It should be accepting of what it allows, just
as dpkg does.
Creation of debs should not use the / form, however.
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