> On 10 May 2019, at 10:39, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > > I understand that this was an issue when prototyping, but have you used ar > to manipulate .deb archives even once this millenium? By now, the deb > format is common, while ar is an obscure implementation detail. I did used ar to unpack .deb several times, usually when I had to pull a file on a non-Debian system (or when I could not remember the dpkg-deb syntax and I was lazy, but that doesn’t count :) Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org
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