Accepted debhelper 4.9.5ubuntu2 (source)

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:45 +1000, Adam Conrad wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 
> > They're not that evil ... contrary to popular belief, dpkg-deb is only
> > used to build packages and for the user to tear them apart -- dpkg
> > doesn't use it itself to unpack them.
> 
> This was proven to be obviously untrue, when I diverted dpkg-deb in a
> preinst, and watched the unpack phase fall over hard because dpkg-deb
> didn't exist anymore.  An evil hack ensued to work around this, and life
> carried on as usual.
> 
I should've been a little more specific, it's not used to extract the
filesystem archive -- it is still used to actually get the filesystem
archive out of the deb.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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