Hi! On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 13:19:57 +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > in linux-source-3.11, we have an issue due to unclear procedure how to > use uncompressed data.tar files: > > http://bugs.debian.org/725492 > > While lintian rejects packages with data.tar (in contrast to the > compressed data.tar.{...} variants), an uncompressed data.tar.gz that > the kernel is currently using (dpkg-source -Xgzip -z0) triggers problems > in apt-ftparchive.
> To implement a correct fix, Ben asked for a decision by dpkg > maintainers, FTP team and policy. Basically, the question is if > uncompressed data.tar is the correct way (for me, this would be the > logical consequence), or rather uncompressed data.tar.gz as linux > currently does, but which isn't actually gzip formatted file, or sth. else. > > See also http://bugs.debian.org/718330 I've had a working fix for 718295 since end of July, but I've not applied it as it would remove a currently used misfeature with no substitute. As long as the data.tar support in general is so poor [0] and at least something like linux-source-3.11 uses the uncompressed tar.gz trick it would seems like a disservice to change it now. But I do think those .deb packages are bogus, and they break the assumption that .deb packages can be handled (w/o hacks) by standard Unix tools (in this case gzip needs a --force option to comply with the request). Sorry, should have updated my comment on the bug report clarifying that. The danger is that not fixing it, means tools might start supporting the bogusly created packages, but those have existed for a long time already, so they might need to anyway… Has someone tried recompressing linux-source-3.11 with something like -Zgzip -z1 as proposed in that bug report to see how it turns out (space and time-wise), if that happened to be acceptable, I'd happily push the fix for dpkg 1.17.4. [0] <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport>, created after this was spotted, I'd need to update it now probably. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
