Control: tags -1 patch On 2013-07-30 17:43, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.15 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi! > > The malformed-deb-archive gets emitted on valid .deb archives as > specified in deb(5) and accepted by dpkg-deb, although those are not > accepted by the Debian archive. It would be nice to separate what's > a trully malformed .deb archive from what's not accepted by Debian, > probably through a profile? > > For example the format explicitly supports extra members after the > known ones, and additional members inbetween the known ones as long > as they start with an underscore. Also uncompressed data.tar members > (as mentioned in another bug report). > > Thanks, > Guillem > >
Hi, I am proposing the following patch to resolve this issue. ~Niels
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