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DEB-OLD !!!DEB-OLD NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FORMAT SEE ALSO ---- !!NAME deb-old - old style Debian binary package format !!SYNOPSIS ''filename''__.deb__ !!DESCRIPTION The __.deb__ format is the Debian binary package file format. This manual page describes the __old__ format, used before Debian 0.93. Please see deb(5) for details of the new format. !!FORMAT The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by two concatenated gzipped ustar files. The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and is __0.939000__ for all old-format archives. The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving the length of the first gzipped tarfile. Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character. The first tarfile contains the control information, as a series of ordinary files, described in ''Debian Packaging Manual, section 2.2''. The file __control__ must be present, as it contains the core control information. In some very old archives, the files in the control tarfile may optionally be in a __DEBIAN__ subdirectory. In that case, the __DEBIAN__ subdirectory will be in the control tarfile too, and the control tarfile will have only files in that directory. Optionally the control tarfile may contain an entry for `__.__', that is, the current directory. The second gzipped tarfile is the filesystem archive, containing pathnames relative to the root directory of the system to be installed on. The pathnames do not have leading slashes. !!SEE ALSO deb(5), dpkg-deb(1), __deb-control__(5), ''Debian Packaging Manual''. ----
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