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+.\" dpkg manual page - deb-old(5)
+.\"
+.\" Copyright © 1995 Raul Miller
+.\" Copyright © 1995-1996 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+.\" Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@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\-old 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite"
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+deb\-old \- old style Debian binary package format
+.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.IB filename .deb
+.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B .deb
+format is the Debian binary package file format. This manual page
+describes the
+.B old
+format, used before Debian 0.93. Please see
+.BR deb (5)
+for details of the new format.
+.
+.SH FORMAT
+The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by
+two concatenated gzipped ustar files.
+.PP
+The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and is
+.B 0.939000
+for all old-format archives.
+.PP
+The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving
+the length of the first gzipped tarfile.
+.PP
+Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character.
+.PP
+The first tarfile contains the control information, as a series of
+ordinary files. The file
+.B control
+must be present, as it contains the core control information.
+.PP
+In some very old archives, the files in the control tarfile may
+optionally be in a
+.B DEBIAN
+subdirectory. In that case, the
+.B DEBIAN
+subdirectory will be in the control tarfile too, and the control
+tarfile will have only files in that directory. Optionally the
+control tarfile may contain an entry for
+.RB ‘ . ’,
+that is, the current directory.
+.PP
+The second gzipped tarfile is the filesystem archive, containing
+pathnames relative to the root directory of the system to be installed
+on. The pathnames do not have leading slashes.
+.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR deb (5),
+.BR dpkg\-deb (1),
+.BR deb\-control (5).