Comment 6 for bug 262767
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| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote Re: [Bug 262767] Re: Expire translations-tarball file contents once they get successfuly processed | #6 |
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On Thursday 12 August 2010 15:03:23 Данило Шеган wrote:
> Jeroen, I think you are mistaken here. Soyuz "custom" upload is an
> actual upload of the tarball which contains translations (I am not sure
> if it contains full source code as well, but that's not really
> relevant).
Custom uploads are defined as anything that has a "custom" file attached
(translations fall into that category).
> If debs actually included PO files, that'd be very weird, and
> they'd have to be there without being installed, but would still take a
> lot of disk space on Ubuntu live CDs eg.
>
> Also, while debs are based on tarballs, they are not really ones. They
> are tarballs wrapped with some binary data (or something like that), so
> our code wouldn't even work if this was the case. FWIW, I've tried and
> even tarfile.
A deb is actually a gnu "ar" archive :)
Try "ar t <file.deb>"