John Goerzen writes ("Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2"): > Plus, of course, when discussing tar, there is always the "which tar > format do you mean?" question. > > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/libarchive-dev/tar.5.en.html
Quite. > I should note that dpkg does have a maximum file size limit that's > rather lower than the ar limit, due to its interpretation of tar > headers. I believe I filed a bug on this but I'm not able to find it > right now, unfortunately. IDK if dpkg is still using this but back in the dqy, when I needed dpkg to handle each file in a tarball individually, I found a tar parsing library under a rock somewhere. It wasn't a bad one but I'm sure it could be improved... Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.