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Bug 576436 - Please add proper support for *.deb files
Please add proper support for *.deb files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-23 16:04 UTC by Josselin Mouette
Modified: 2010-06-10 07:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
Add support for dpkg-deb (14.16 KB, patch)
2010-06-10 03:00 UTC, Josselin Mouette 		none Details | Review

Description Josselin Mouette 2009-03-23 16:04:35 UTC 
Currently file-roller can open .deb files using ar and tar, but it has two important drawbacks:
 - It requires binutils installed, which is not the case on standard installations.
 - It only shows the ar archive, which is not really useful, and should directly show the full contents instead.

Therefore it would be really nice if file-roller could use the dpkg-deb command (which is always here on Debian systems) to view and extract .deb files (creating is also possible this way, but not really useful).
Comment 1 Josselin Mouette 2010-06-10 03:00:52 UTC 
Created attachment 163259 [details] [review]
Add support for dpkg-deb

Here you go. The patch implements .deb reading through dpkg-deb.
There is a little drawback: just like uncompress, dpkg-deb is not able to extract a single file.
Comment 2 Paolo Bacchilega 2010-06-10 07:34:44 UTC 
patch applied to the master branch, thank you.