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DEB(5)				    Debian				DEB(5)

NAME
       deb - Debian binary package format

SYNOPSIS
       filename.deb

DESCRIPTION
       The  .deb format is the Debian binary package file format. It is under‐
       stood by dpkg 0.93.76 and later, and is generated  by  default  by  all
       versions of dpkg since 1.2.0 and all i386/ELF versions since 1.1.1elf.

       The format described here is used since Debian 0.93; details of the old
       format are described in deb-old(5).

FORMAT
       The file is an ar archive with a magic number of !<arch>.

       The first member is named debian-binary and contains a series of lines,
       separated  by newlines.	Currently only one line is present, the format
       version number, 2.0 at the time this manual page was written.  Programs
       which  read new-format archives should be prepared for the minor number
       to be increased and new lines to be present, and should ignore these if
       this is the case.

       If  the	major number has changed, an incompatible change has been made
       and the program should stop. If it has not, then the program should  be
       able  to	 safely continue, unless it encounters an unexpected member in
       the archive (except at the end), as described below.

       The second required member is named control.tar.gz .  It is  a  gzipped
       tar  archive containing the package control information, as a series of
       plain files, of which the file control is mandatory  and	 contains  the
       core control information.  Please see the Debian Packaging Manual, sec‐
       tion 2.2 for details of these files.  The control tarball  may  option‐
       ally contain an entry for `.', the current directory.

       The third, last required member is named data.tar.gz .  It contains the
       filesystem archive as a gzipped tar archive.

       These members must occur in this exact order.  Current  implementations
       should  ignore  any additional members after data.tar.gz.  Further mem‐
       bers may be defined in the future, and (if  possible)  will  be	placed
       after  these three. Any additional members that may need to be inserted
       before data.tar.gz and which should be safely  ignored  by  older  pro‐
       grams, will have names starting with an underscore, `_'.

       Those  new  members  which  won't  be able to be safely ignored will be
       inserted before data.tar.gz with names starting	with  something	 other
       than  underscores, or will (more likely) cause the major version number
       to be increased.

SEE ALSO
       deb-old(5), dpkg-deb(1), deb-control(5), Debian Packaging Manual.

Debian Project			 January 2000				DEB(5)
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