On 2019-05-08 22:35:58 +0200 (+0200), Ansgar wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > I've recently did some research on how can we improve the speed of unpacking > > packages. There's a lot of other stages that can be improved, but let's > > talk about the .deb format. > > > > First, the 0.939 format, as described in "man deb-old". While still being > > accepted by dpkg, it had been superseded before even the very first stable > > release. Why? It has at least two upsides over 2.0: > > Switching to a different binary format will break various tools. If we > want to do this, I wonder if we shouldn't take the chance to move away > from tar? > > We have various applications that only want to extract single members of > the package (changelog, NEWS, copyright, ...); tar is a really bad > format for such an operation. Other formats (zip, 7z, ...) are more > suited for them.
Are you talking about source packages or binary packages here? The latter use ar, not tar. -- Jeremy Stanley
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