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 -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)