Bug#549333: libapt's AR File parsing gets confused by filenames terminated with "/"

[Alex Bennee <bugzilla@bennee.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1
Severity: normal

libapt's AR File implementation gets confused by file names which are
terminated with "/" (which is sysv feature allowing spaces in file
names). The result is hand rolling a .deb file with "ar" generates
packages which are installable with dpkg but not GDebi (as it uses
libapt).

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-10/msg00063.html

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.4 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring       2009.01.31  GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.2-1.1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc               <none>             (no description available)
ii  aptitude              0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
ii  bzip2                 1.0.5-1            high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev              1.14.25            Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                  4.43-14            Compression method of 7z format in
pn  python-apt            <none>             (no description available)

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