Package: aptly
Version: 0.8-3
Severity: important
Tags: jessie stretch sid
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-d...@lists.debian.org

Dear maintainer,

Current aptly cannot handle deb packages built using dpkg (>= 1.19.0~) since 
the new deb files now use "control.tar.xz" instead of "control.tar.gz". The 
root cause is that dpkg-deb (>= 1.19.0~) now enables "--uniform-compression" 
by default.

This bug is already reported upstream:
    https://github.com/smira/aptly/issues/655

This bug is pretty serious since all new packages built on new Debian-based 
systems will not be compatible with aptly. I will keep tracking this bug and 
raise severity when upstream releases the fix.

CC-ing debian-dpkg maillist to make dpkg staff aware of this side-effect. We 
could expect that other Debian archive management tools break as well.

Regards,
Boyuan Yang

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