Package: python-debian Version: 0.1.4 The DebFile class constructor checks that the given .deb file contains the following archive members:
DATA_PART = 'data.tar.gz' CTRL_PART = 'control.tar.gz' INFO_PART = 'debian-binary' and throws an exception if there are extra members. This causes failures on 36 packages currently in the archive (on my amd64 mirror): - 34 packages contain an extra member named '_gpgbuilder', which is a file generated by dpkg-sig. - 2 packages use bz2 compression for the data tarball, hence they have data.tar.bz2 but not data.tar.gz. I think that this is a policy violation, but that's beyond the scope of this bug report. deb(5) says the following about extra members: | Current implementations should ignore any additional | members after data.tar.gz. So if DebFile could just ignore those extra members instead of throwing an exception, that'd be nice. Thanks, -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
