On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 01:25:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:00:48AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > > according to Jason: > > > dpkg originally used the BSD ar 'standard', whose encoding does not > > > put / at the end of ar archives. > > > > > > SVr4/GNU ar puts the /s there (and has other encoding differences). > > > > > > apt only supports the BSD format. As did dpkg, until recently it started > > > supporting decoding a bit of the GNU format. > > > > Shouldn't apt be a bit more flexible, especially if dpkg is going to be? > > > > > i *think* the conclusion was that in general apt will only support > > > the BSD format > > > > Why? > > I'm still waiting for an answer to these questions. > > One of the selling points of the Debian package format is that it can be > manipulated with "standard tools".
manipulated != created debsigs is an official creator. Therefor, it *must* not put / on the end of the member names. > Apt refusing to deal with ar files that have the Debian components in > the proper order, but which were generated by the only ar program that > Debian provides is *perverse*. This is true. But debsigs is still buggy.
