list file for package missing final newline

[Fernan Aguero]

On 1/13/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:18:27 -0300
> Fernan Aguero <fernan.aguero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You can unpack a .deb like this:
> >
> >   ar -x package.deb
>
> You can also do for example
>
> dpkg -x package.deb /destination/directory

Well, I tried that, but seems like dpkg also tries to behave smartly on
.deb packages (i.e. goes farther than just unpacking), in my case
dpkg --extract failed with the same error about a missing final newline
in libgtk1.2, which probably means it was checking /var/lib/dpkg/info as well

Fernan

> that's probably why the "Debian Gods" decided it wasn't necessary to
> identify the archive type explicitly, although I would have thought
>
> file package.deb
>
> would be more informative than it actually is!
>
> Peter

I cannot but say that I'm glad that we have other religions and Gods, and
that some of them (for example the FreeBSD Gods) didn't thought about
naming their gzipped tarballs containing precompiled binaries (aka packages)
as .fbsd, .bsd or something along those lines. I personally find it comforting
that they're named '.tgz' or '.tbz2'

When switching religions, it takes time to know your Gods and their
idiosyncrasies :)

Fernan

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Fernan Aguero