On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:14:48AM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > Package: apt-utils > Version: 0.7.14+b1 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates > Tags: patch > > Hi > > apt-extracttemplates complains that deb is "not a valid DEB package" > while dpkg has no problem handling this particullar package. The problem > is caused by fact, that the package was manually created by GNU Ar, > which adds trailing / to file names (to allow spaces in names). This > situation is correctly handled by dpkg, but apt does not seem to handle > this. > > Attached patch should fix this issue (it works with my test package).
Thanks for the bugreport and the patch. I commited it to bzr and it will be part of the next upload. Thanks, michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
