Debian bug report logs - #1649, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1649: dpkg-split + 200 header bytes
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.4

1    Kb = 1024    bytes
1440 Kb = 1474560 bytes
however dpkg-split thinks that
1440 Kb = 1474760 bytes -> 200 free bytes (header bytes?)

# dpkg-split -S 1440 -s emacs-19.29-4.deb
                ~~~~
Splitting package emacs into 4 parts: 1 2 3 4 done
# ls -l
total 9379
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474760 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.1of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474760 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.2of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474760 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.3of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       353326 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.4of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      4776805 Oct 12 14:26 emacs-19.29-4.deb

Suggestion: optionally 8.3 named parts for easy transfer on 8.3 disks:
emacs1.deb, emacs2.deb, etc, or emacs.de1, emacs.de2, etc.?











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Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>
Subject: Bug#1649: Acknowledgement (was: dpkg-split + 200 header bytes)
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Subject: Bug#1649: marked as done (was: dpkg-split + 200 header bytes)

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From: Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>
Subject: dpkg-split + 200 header bytes
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 13:30:49 MET
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.4

1    Kb = 1024    bytes
1440 Kb = 1474560 bytes
however dpkg-split thinks that
1440 Kb = 1474760 bytes -> 200 free bytes (header bytes?)

# dpkg-split -S 1440 -s emacs-19.29-4.deb
                ~~~~
Splitting package emacs into 4 parts: 1 2 3 4 done
# ls -l
total 9379
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474760 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.1of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474760 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.2of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474760 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.3of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       353326 Oct 12 15:07 emacs-19.29-4.4of4.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      4776805 Oct 12 14:26 emacs-19.29-4.deb

Suggestion: optionally 8.3 named parts for easy transfer on 8.3 disks:
emacs1.deb, emacs2.deb, etc, or emacs.de1, emacs.de2, etc.?











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Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl 00++10-46351542
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>
Subject: Bug#1649 acknowledged by developer (was: dpkg-split + 200 header bytes)
References: <m0t3a5N-0002aFZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk> <9510121227.AA10130@mailgate.eur.nl>
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