[$] Improving .deb

Debian Linux and its family of derivatives (such as Ubuntu) are partly
characterized by their use of.deb as the packaging format.
Packages in this format are produced not only by the distributions themselves,
but also by independent software vendors. The last major change of the format
internals happened back in 1995. However, a discussion of possible
changes has been brought up recently on the debian-devel mailing list by Adam
Borowski.