Jeremy Stanley writes: > On 2019-05-08 22:35:58 +0200 (+0200), Ansgar wrote: >> 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.
I'm talking about binary packages (*.deb). They currently use tar archives (control.tar.*, data.tar.*) packed in an ar archive. Ansgar
