Lintian tag: malformed-deb-archive
Type: error
Description (from lintian-explain-tags)
The binary package is not a correctly constructed archive. A binary Debian
package must be an ar archive with exactly three members: debian-binary,
control.tar.gz, and one of data.tar.gz, data.tar.bz2 or data.tar.xz (or
data.tar.zst on Ubuntu) in exactly that order. The debian-binary member
must start with a single line containing the version number, with a major
revision of 2.
Please refer to the deb(5) manual page for details.
Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: deb-format
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