list file for package missing final newline

ben darby ben at cvrse.com
Sat Jan 13 06:22:06 UTC 2007


* Peter Garrett wrote:
> that's probably why the "Debian Gods" decided it wasn't necessary to
> identify the archive type explicitly, although I would have thought
> 
> file package.deb
> 
> would be more informative than it actually is!

there is further information there however a simple 'file package.deb'
will only return the first test that is successful as per the man page,
if you want more try the '-kr' flags

-- 
ben darby
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