Judit Foglszinger <fgr...@freenet.de> writes: > When calling lintian with "lintian -i -C deb-format" > over a malformed package, I get the following output: > > E: package: malformed-deb-archive second member data.tar.gz not control.tar.gz > N: > N: The binary package is not a correctly constructed archive. A binary > N: Debian package must be an ar archive with exactly three members: > N: debian-control, control.tar.gz, and data.tar.gz or data.tar.bz2 in > N: exactly that order. The debian-control member must start with a single > N: line containing the version number, with a major revision of 2. > (...) > > I assume, "debian-control" should be "debian-binary", as stated in deb(5): > "The first member is named debian-binary and contains a series of lines, > separated by newlines. Currently only one line is present, the format > version number, 2.0 at the time this manual page was written."
Indeed, good catch. Thanks. Will be fixed in the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
