1 Check-Script: deb-format
2 Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
6 Info: This script checks the format of the deb ar archive itself.
8 Tag: malformed-deb-archive
11 Info: The binary package is not a correctly constructed archive. A binary
12 Debian package must be an ar archive with exactly three members:
13 <tt>debian-binary</tt>, <tt>control.tar.gz</tt>, and
14 <tt>data.tar.gz</tt> or <tt>data.tar.bz2</tt> in exactly that order. The
15 <tt>debian-binary</tt> member must start with a single line containing
16 the version number, with a major revision of 2.
22 Info: The data portion of this binary package is compressed with lzma.
23 This is supported by dpkg but not yet permitted in the Debian archive.
24 Such a package will be rejected by DAK.
26 Tag: tar-errors-from-control
29 Info: tar produced an error while listing the contents of the
30 <tt>control.tar.gz</tt> member of this package. This probably means
31 there's something broken or at least strange about the way the package
34 Tag: tar-errors-from-data
37 Info: tar produced an error while listing the contents of the data
38 member of this package. This probably means there's something broken or
39 at least strange about the way the package was constructed.