> I got a bug report effectively saying that dpkg permits this. Till then I > had thought it was invalid. only xzip and sgml-tools make use of this. > > Thought some of you who write scripts to look at the archive would like to > know.. > > I have a verifying parser and normalizing emitter which corrects many many > oddball constructs that dpkg accepts if anyone is interested.
I think we should have a more formal definition of Debian's files, and which is the right way to parse them... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]