Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 2013-10-06 at 16:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: linux-source-3.10 > Version: 3.10.11-1 > Severity: important > > linux-source-3.10_3.10.11-1_all.deb contains a data.tar.gz file, but > this file should also be named data.tar as it is not compressed: > | $ file data.tar.gz > | data.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU) > > This causes gunzip to fails: > | $ gunzip data.tar.gz > | > | gzip: data.tar.gz: not in gzip format
This package contains a single large xz-compressed tarball and a few smaller xz-compressed files. So it's a waste of time to compress the package. I wanted to use -Znone which would result in an uncompressed data.tar, but lintian says this is not allowed: E: foo: malformed-deb-archive third (official) member data.tar not data.tar.(gz|bz2|xz) I asked on #debian-ftp a while back and was advised to use -Zgzip -z0 which is accepted but has the problem you're reporting. (The dpkg documentation now says this is equivalent to -Znone, but obviously that's not quite true!) > Which breaks at least apt-ftparchive, and probably more tools: > | E: Sub-process gzip received signal 2. > | E: Errors apply to file > '/srv/mini-dak/ftp/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-source-3.10_3.10.11-1_all.deb' I thought dak was still using apt-ftparchive but perhaps not. Anyway, dak and dpkg are happy with this package and that's the most important thing. Once the dpkg maintainers and FTP team and lintian/policy agree with each other on the correct way to make an uncompressed package, I'll be happy to make any necessary changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, reading IRC for the first time
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