make deb reader handle new control.tar options introduced in dpkg 1.17.6 #658
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newly supported is uncompressed control.tar and xz compressed
control.tar.xz. latter is used by ubuntu for dbgsym ddebs.
Fixes #655
Requirements
All new code should be covered with tests, documentation should be updated. CI should pass.
Description of the Change
Currently Ubuntu 18.04 builds with ddebs (debug symbols) cannot be uploaded to aptly as they get rejected with
which is caused by the packages making use of control.tar.xz members which are fairly newly supported in dpkg. The proposed change adds support for new control.tar variants as per deb format specification manpage.
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