On 30-Apr-01, 14:33 (CDT), Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> You could probably do without the latter two, but IIRC the deb format
> is internal to dpkg and dpkg-deb is the only supported interface for
> creating debs.

Not true: .deb files are ar(1) archives containing two tar.gz
members. See deb(5).  (I suspect that support for signed debs implies
more members, but not a change to the basic format.)

Steve

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