[Reproducible-commits] [dpkg] 09/74: man: Document the tar entry size limitation for deb(5) format

[Mattia Rizzolo]

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mattia pushed a commit to annotated tag 1.18.8
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commit 31b965e71beb1964e378b856f64d8c8611aed51b
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Wed May 18 03:01:29 2016 +0200

    man: Document the tar entry size limitation for deb(5) format
---
 debian/changelog | 1 +
 man/deb.5        | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f15343e..5ff6a53 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ dpkg (1.18.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Improve dpkg-buildpackage(1) on environment expectations.
     - Clarify the format of the db:Status-Abbrev virtual field in
       dpkg-query(1). Closes: #824515
+    - Document the tar entry size limitation for deb(5) format.
 
   [ Updated programs translations ]
   * German (Sven Joachim).
diff --git a/man/deb.5 b/man/deb.5
index 67d4958..e78faec 100644
--- a/man/deb.5
+++ b/man/deb.5
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ the pre-POSIX ustar format, a subset of the GNU format (only the new
 style long pathnames and long linknames, supported since dpkg 1.4.1.17),
 and the POSIX ustar format (long names supported since dpkg 1.15.0).
 Unrecognized tar typeflags are considered an error.
+Each tar entry size inside a tar archive is limited to 11 ASCII octal
+digits, allowing for up to 8 GiB tar entries.
 .PP
 The first member is named
 .B debian\-binary

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