On 20010501T114542-0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 30-Apr-01, 14:33 (CDT), Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could probably do without the latter two, but IIRC the deb format > > is internal to dpkg and dpkg-deb is the only supported interface for > > creating debs. > > Not true: .deb files are ar(1) archives containing two tar.gz > members. See deb(5).
I know that and it does not invalidate what I said. Internal does not mean the same as unique. Anyhow, I cannot seem to be able to find the relevant docs that support my position; the only comparable thing is policy saying that one should use dpkg-deb to create debs. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%
