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NAME

6       deb-old - old style Debian binary package format
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SYNOPSIS

9       filename.deb
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  .deb  format is the Debian binary package file format. This manual
13       page describes the old format, used  before  Debian  0.93.  Please  see
14       deb(5) for details of the new format.
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FORMAT

17       The  file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by
18       two concatenated gzipped ustar files.
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20       The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and  is
21       0.939000 for all old-format archives.
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23       The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving the
24       length of the first gzipped tarfile.
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26       Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character.
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28       The first tarfile contains the control  information,  as  a  series  of
29       ordinary  files.  The  file control must be present, as it contains the
30       core control information.
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32       In some very old  archives,  the  files  in  the  control  tarfile  may
33       optionally  be  in  a  DEBIAN  subdirectory.  In  that case, the DEBIAN
34       subdirectory will be in  the  control  tarfile  too,  and  the  control
35       tarfile  will have only files in that directory. Optionally the control
36       tarfile may contain an entry for ‘.’, that is, the current directory.
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38       The second  gzipped  tarfile  is  the  filesystem  archive,  containing
39       pathnames  relative to the root directory of the system to be installed
40       on. The pathnames do not have leading slashes.
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SEE ALSO

43       deb(5), dpkg-deb(1), deb-control(5).
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