On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:59:26AM +0700, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > I understand that this was an issue when prototyping, but have you used ar > > to manipulate .deb archives even once this millenium? By now, the deb > > format is common, while ar is an obscure implementation detail. > I did used ar to unpack .deb several times, usually when I had to pull a file > on a non-Debian system (or when I could not remember the dpkg-deb syntax > and I was lazy, but that doesn’t count :) same here. and not only this millenium, but also this decade :)
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