What's the current status of these bugs? Does debsigs now create valid .debs or not? I have a request to support debsigs in debsign, but that is obviously daft if it's then going to create broken debs.
Julian On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:59:00PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:56:19PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > Here is what conclusion Jason and I agreed upon: > > [...] > > > For official deb creators: > > > > > > * must create archive in bsd format > > > * debian-binary must always be first. > > > * The order of the members is: debian-binary, control, data. > > > * Optional members follow the required members, and are prefixed with > > > '_'. > > > > I continue to await advice on what tool "official deb creators" should > > use to construct ar files. > > > > Is there a Perl module or C library for this purpose. It's been > > established quite solidly that we can't use the ar from binutils. > > dpkg will provide such a tool. However, it'll be a bit before such a tool > enters the archive. > k
