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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/>.
+
+=encoding utf8
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+deb-old - old style Debian binary package format
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+I<filename>B<.deb>
+
+=head1 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
+B<deb>(5)
+for details of the new format.
+
+=head1 FORMAT
+
+The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by
+two concatenated gzipped ustar files.
+
+The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and is
+B<0.939000>
+for all old-format archives.
+
+The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving
+the length of the first gzipped tarfile.
+
+Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character.
+
+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.
+
+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
+‘B<.>’,
+that is, the current directory.
+
+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.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+B<deb>(5),
+B<dpkg-deb>(1),
+B<deb-control>(5).