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+.\" dpkg manual page - deb-split(5)
+.\"
+.\" Copyright © 2009-2012 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+.\"
+.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.
+.TH deb\-split 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite"
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+deb\-split \- Debian multi-part binary package format
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.IB filename .deb
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The multi-part \fB.deb\fP format is used to split big packages into smaller
+pieces to ease transport in small media.
+.SH FORMAT
+The file is an \fBar\fP archive with a magic value of \fB!<arch>\fP.
+The file names might contain a trailing slash (since dpkg 1.15.6).
+.PP
+The first member is named \fBdebian\-split\fP and contains a series
+of lines, separated by newlines. Currently eight lines are present:
+.IP • 4
+The format version number, \fB2.1\fP at the time this manual page was
+written.
+.IP •
+The package name.
+.IP •
+The package version.
+.IP •
+The md5sum of the package.
+.IP •
+The total size of the package.
+.IP •
+The maximum part size.
+.IP •
+The current part number, followed by a slash and the total amount of
+parts (as in ‘1/10’).
+.IP •
+The package architecture (since dpkg 1.16.1).
+.PP
+Programs which read multi-part archives should be prepared for the minor
+format version number to be increased and additional lines to be present,
+and should ignore these if this is the case.
+.PP
+If the major format version 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.
+.PP
+The second, last required member is named \fBdata.\fP\fIN\fP, where \fIN\fP
+denotes the part number. It contains the raw part data.
+.PP
+These members must occur in this exact order. Current implementations
+should ignore any additional members after \fBdata.\fP\fIN\fP.
+Further members may be defined in the future, and (if possible) will be
+placed after these two.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR deb (5),
+.BR dpkg\-split (1).