Package: debian-el Version: 36.3+nmu1 Severity: important In the dpkg 1.19.0 upload, the --uniform-compression option for dpkg-deb has been turned on by default, meaning that the control archive will be compressed with xz rather than gzip.
Unfortunately, deb-view.el hardcodes control.tar.gz, in line 387 ff: ,---- | (call-process shell-file-name nil t nil shell-command-switch | (concat "ar -p " debfile | " control.tar.gz | gzip -cd")) `---- This leads complaints from ar about the missing control.tar.gz and from gzip about the (empty) standard input not being in gzip format, making it impossible to view the .deb file in Emacs. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-rc5-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debian-el depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.1 ii emacs 47.0 ii emacs-snapshot [emacsen] 1:20171012-1 ii emacs25 [emacsen] 25.2+1-6 ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 ii file 1:5.32-1 ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-1 ii reportbug 7.1.7 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages debian-el recommends: pn dlocate <none> ii groff-base 1.22.3-9 ii wget 1.19.1-4 Versions of packages debian-el suggests: pn gnus <none> -- no debconf information
