Your message dated Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:07:32 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#161593: Should support both BSD and SysV ar formats has caused the Debian Bug report #161593, regarding apt-utils: apt-extracttemplates fails to parse debs created/modified by ar to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt-utils Version: 0.5.14.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The specification for the deb format ("man deb" is the best I could find) say "The file is an ar archive with a magic number of !<arch>". dpkg-deb uses "filename " as the filename string in the deb while ar will use "filename/ ". While dpkg happily accepts both formats apt-extracttemplates fails to strip the trailing '/' from the filename. Since dpkg is the authorative implementation apt-extracttemplates should follow its lead and also support both. As a sidenote, the reason why this is important is that debsigs modifies deb archives through ar and ar will add the trailing '/' to all filenames. The same problem arises when deb files are build manually with ar. Attached is a one line patch to support trailing '/'. Please add this as soon as possible. Until then signed debs and pre-configuring packages with debconf will conflict. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dual 2.4.21-ac4 #1 SMP Sat Jul 5 17:53:13 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages apt-utils depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.14 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-8 The Berkeley database routines (ru ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.7.21 On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 11:54:24 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > # seems like this is stalled on specification work > tags 161593 -1 patch > thanks This has all been specified in the dpkg deb(5) man page for a very long time. apt started to support ar members ended with a / in 0.7.21, as part of bug report #500988, and apt has been marked as being compliant for a long time in <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport>. Closing this report. Thanks, Guillem
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