On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 17:04:41 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >>>>> Joey Hess <[email protected]> writes: > > [1] Doesn't dpkg even support all the old variants of the deb format? > > Surprisingly, it depends on the locale! Consider, e. g.: > > $ LC_ALL=C dpkg -c \ > > archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/binary/base/dpkg-1.0.0.deb > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1995-10-01 18:18 ./ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/doc/ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/doc/copyright/ > -rw-r--r-- root/root 1540 1995-10-01 18:18 usr/doc/copyright/dpkg > … > $ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 dpkg -c \ > > archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/binary/base/dpkg-1.0.0.deb > dpkg-deb: > »archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-0.93R6/binary/base/dpkg-1.0.0.deb« > ist kein Archiv im Debian-Format > $
Nicely spot, I'm fixing this for my next push. It's anyway a part of the codebase I had already on my TODO to fix. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

