Bug#462859: debfile fails for packages using data.tar.bz2

[James Westby]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:16 -0800, Cameron Dale wrote:
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> Package: python-debian
> Version: 0.1.8
> Severity: normal
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> debfile doesn't understand the new package format that uses data.tar.bz2. You
> can see this by using the dpkg-info script in the examples to try and read a
> file in this new format, e.g.:

Another complication is that we may have lzma debs in the near future.
Ubuntu supports uploading them already, so it would be good to have
support for those as well.

Thanks,

James