Hi Goswin,
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:20:32PM +0200:
> thank you for starcing the problem. Too me it looks like debsums calls
> dpkg-deb in an undocumented (although not uncommon for tools in
> general) way:
I don't think it's debsums. Debsums calls dpkg without "--", see line
491 of debsums:
491 system 'dpkg', '--control', $deb, $control
But it doesn't call dpkg-deb, but dpkg (which is ok) and dpkg adds
this "--" since 1.15.1.
> 4: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb --control --
> /var/cache/apt/archives/bzip2_1.0.5-2_amd64.deb /tmp/gD4mFRK2gm/DEBIAN
>
> According to the manpage the syntax is:
>
> -e, --control archive [directory]
>
> There is no mention in the docs that dpkg-deb supports "--".
Then it's a bug that it's not documented anywhere else than in the
dpkg 1.15.1 changelog entry:
* When dpkg delegates to dpkg-query or dpkg-deb to do the actual work, add
the "--" marker to explicitely document the end of options so that
arguments starting with a dash are not interpreted as options.
Closes: #293163
Thanks to Bill Allombert for the patch.
> Your patch isn't correct though, at least not complete. Think of this
> invocation:
>
> dpkg-deb --control -- /var/cache/apt/archives/bzip2_1.0.5-2_amd64.deb
There you are right. Missed that one.
> In that case, despite having 3 arguments, the DIR has to default to
> $(pwd)/DEBIAN. I guess there is no way around fully scanning the
> arguments and counting the valid bits.
Looks so to me now, too. :-/
Regards, Axel
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