Talk:deb (file format)

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I need some historic information. When .deb format was invented? Which year? And who is author(s)? (Merdok?) Where first documents on the format was published? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.32.159.235 (talk) 08:05, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Offnfopt: The Website link now points to the packages.debian.org site, which is a distribution-specific portal to its packages. I don't think this is an ideal website for the format. Initially I used a deb(5) man page reference as that seemed the most appropriate, and I'd like to know why it might not be so, beside the older URL being currently unavailable? --Guillem Jover (talk) 00:23, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Guillem Jover the dead link was the reason for changing it. I'm open to suggestions but I think the choices should be confined to the debian domain. Some choices perhaps:

• https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging
• https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html

I think the wiki link seems the best option unless you can find a better solution. Offnfopt^(talk) 01:04, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

E Sorry Wait this is talk Ok Idc Aw wiki 69 (talk) 22:09, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article currently lists gzip, bzip2, xz, and lzma as supported formats for the data tarball and gzip or xz as supported for the control tarball. While this is currently the case for Debian, Ubuntu added support for zstd compression of both inner archives prior to the focal release. Debian appears to be moving towards implementing a similar change though it's not there yet. Is it worth amending the article to include a reference to zstd compression or should it wait for it to become official Debian policy (assuming it does)? Dave (talk) 13:17, 30 May 2022 (UTC) (full disclosure: I'm a Canonical employee; I just happened across this article while working on a part of our deb-building infrastructure and was interested to note that zstd wasn't listed)[reply]