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deb-old(5) dpkg suite deb-old(5)
deb-old - old style Debian binary package format
filename.deb
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.
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. 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.
deb(5), dpkg-deb(1), deb-control(5).
This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩. If you have a bug report for
this manual page, see
⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩. This page
was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2017-07-05. If you dis‐
cover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or
you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail
to man-pages@man7.org
1.18.15-3-ga2ef 1970-01-01 deb-old(5)
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