On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 04:14:55PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote:
> > ar can't create .debs
>
> Er, why not?
deb(5):
Note that many modern versions of ar create archives with
different magic numbers. Archives created in this way
will not be recognised by dpkg-deb, though these ar pro
grams do understand the magic number used by dpkg-deb.
The man page is dated 1996; has this changed?
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