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

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Alex Bennee <bugzilla@bennee.com> writes:

> 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).

FYI: You are using the wrong ar. :) The one in debian is not
compatible with the deb format. It used to be that dpkg would not
accept such debs either.

MfG
        Goswin