Package: reprepro Version: 4.16.0-1 Severity: minor Hi,
when trying to include the tivsm-*.deb packages from the official IBM Ubuntu "repository" (available at ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v7r1/Linux/LinuxX86_DEB/BA/v712/7.1.2.0-TIV-TSMBAC-LinuxX86_DEB.tar into our local repository running reprepro the import fails. $ reprepro --priority extra includedeb jessie-test tivsm-ba.amd64.deb Character 0x09 not allowed within filenamepart ' amd64'! There have been errors! This is caused by IBM using tabs instead of whitespaces in DEBIAN/control, which is apparently legal according to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-controlsyntax but apparently seldomly used. For now we're repacking the .debs with a script like this: mkdir output for deb in *.deb; do dir=${deb/.deb} # Extract binaries dpkg -x $deb $dir # Extract control files dpkg -e $deb $dir/DEBIAN # Replace Tabs in Control file with spaces sed -i -r 's:\t+: :' $dir/DEBIAN/control dpkg -b $dir output/ done Thanks, Bernhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
