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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. 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).

1.21.22                           2023-05-11                        deb-old(5)

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