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		glandium on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debi... Fun fact, deb packages are just ar files with a funky header, containing a "debian-binary" file containing the deb version (nowadays 2.0), and two compressed tar files, control.tar.$comp and data.tar.$comp, where $comp can be gz, xz, or whatever else is supported.

reactordev on April 6, 2023 | [–]

devil in the details. But yes, you are correct. There are archives of archives in the archive. :insert Keanu whoa:

tenebrisalietum on April 6, 2023 | [–]

I think bookworm is going to support zstd, or at least `tar` will.

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