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Bug#718329: marked as done (apt: Please add support for .deb with uncompressed data.tar member)

Your message dated Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:53:41 +0100
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regarding apt: Please add support for .deb with uncompressed data.tar member
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.9.9.4
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

The apt code does not support uncompressed data.tar .deb members, as
specified by deb(5), which have been supported by since dpkg 1.10.24.

At least the kernel team is currently using «dpkg-deb -Zgzip -z0» on
linux-source-3.10, which generates an uncompressed data.tar.gz member
(which TBH in a strict sense it's bogus for dpkg to create), because
otherwise dak rejects uncompressed .deb data.tar members by way of
python-apt, and finally libapt. dpkg-deb calls that “compressor” «none»,
in case you'd like to have some term consistency.

In any case uncompressed data.tar members are useful in general, when
the contents are all already compressed and there's no gain in
recompressing the member again. AFAIK debdelta is also using those
when reconstructing .debs to feed to dpkg, to avoid duped work.

Thanks,
Guillem

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--- Begin Message --- 
This is fixed now with:

apt (0.9.15.4) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * remove auto-generated apt-key and sources.list on clean (closes:
  739749)
  * add testcase for Bug#718329
  * various fixes for ADT failures

  [ Jon Severinsson ]
  * add apt-vendor information for tanglu

  [ Guillem Jover ]
  * ExtractTar: Allow an empty decompressor program
  * DebFile: Refactor ExtractTarMember() out from ExtractArchive()
  * Add support for data.tar, control.tar and control.tar.xz
  * debian: Add debDebFile::ExtractTarMember to the symbols file
  * Fix typos in documentation (codespell)

 -- Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:27:12 +0100

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