Package: python-debian Version: 0.1.21+nmu2 Severity: wishlist Hi!
The python-debian code does not seem to support uncompressed data.tar .deb members, as specified by deb(5), which have been supported since dpkg 1.10.24. At least the Linux kernel team is currently using «dpkg-deb -Zgzip -z0» on linux-source-3.10, which generates an uncompressed data.tar.gz member (which TBH in a strict sense it's bogus for dpkg to create), ideally once dak accepts uncompressed data.tar member (w/o extension). the kernel could switch to use «dpkg-deb -Znone». Supporting them in python-debian will allow to access those packages, which might already exist in the wild. AFAIK debdelta is already using those when reconstructing .debs to feed to dpkg, to avoid duped work. Thanks, Guillem -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-python-debian-maint
