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Re: Rethinking UPMs package format

On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> But "ar" archives are ASCII files. You can print them. [ ... ]
On Jan 16, 12:36pm, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
> Please, do "cat the-debian-package-of-your-choice.deb"
> and tell me what you see. I would not call this "an ASCII file".

OK. Here it is:

!<arch>
debian-binary   849211368   0     0     100644  4         `
2.0
control.tar.gz  849211368   0     0     100644  562       `
èï?2í?MÓ0?sÅ¿bX©M?æ?-°b¥=ÒJ+qA\gÒ\;² üz¦-+]
...

It looks like an ASCII archive containing a zero-length file called
"debian-binary", then a 562-byte compressed tar archive called
"control.tar.gz", and I'd assume the filesystem tar archive is after
this.

One could use "ar" for everything and dispense with "tar". However, I don't
think you can give up on compression, thus some file contents may be
unreadable without further processing.

	Thanks

	Bruce