On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 04:09:20AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
The other side of the support I've been pondering about is extending
dpkg-deb so that .deb files can be modified in conformant ways, stuff
like inserting _-style members, or appending extra ones at the end,
which would cover the
Hi!
On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 23:25:30 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 04:09:20AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
The other side of the support I've been pondering about is extending
dpkg-deb so that .deb files can be modified in conformant ways, stuff
like inserting _-style
On 2013-07-31 18:24, Guillem Jover wrote:
Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression
support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the
current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The
resulting table looks pretty bad:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:16:02PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
I know that everyone dreams about a stable API for a library, but I believe
that even an unstable library at this point is way better than the status
quo of having other layers like libapt (which is a proof that even if being
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:24:32 +0200
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
Hi!
Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression
support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the
current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The
resulting
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I'm myself guilty of having implemented, back in 2007, python-debian's
support to manipulate .deb files: the debian.debfile module. It is yet
another Python implementation of deb(5), because back in the days there
was no
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:18:13PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I'm myself guilty of having implemented, back in 2007, python-debian's
support to manipulate .deb files: the debian.debfile module. It is yet
another Python
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
[...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar
May I ask why would you want that?
There's a lot of extra complexity, incompatibility with existing tools,
added moving parts... and I'm not aware of any gain.
On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
[...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar
May I ask why would you want that?
There's a lot of extra complexity, incompatibility with
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:52:38PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
[...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar
May I ask why would
On 1 August 2013 16:21, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:52:38PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
[...] in preparation to add
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:21:01PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
On 1 August 2013 16:21, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:52:38PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at
Hi!
On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 16:40:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
[...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar
May I ask why would you want that?
See
Hi!
On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 09:38:35 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:24:32 +0200
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote:
Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression
support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the
current deb(5)
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression
support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the
current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The
resulting table looks pretty bad:
Hi!
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:16:02 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote:
Can you expand on the planned remedy and in how soon it might arrive?
That I would be interested in as well.
I know that everyone dreams about a
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression
support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the
current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The
resulting table looks pretty bad:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression
support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the
current deb(5) format
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