Unable to find control.tar.gz part in package composer

[timwsuqld]

Attempting to add composer package (https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/composer) to our local repo. However, it errors with

[!] Unable to read file composer_1.5.2-1_all.deb: unable to find control.tar.gz part in package composer_1.5.2-1_all.deb

I am able to successfully extract both the control file (dpkg-deb -e) as well as the files manually. Is it really a broken package, or is aptly misreading something?

Your Environment

$ aptly version
aptly version: 1.1.1

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial

[timwsuqld]

Just to add to this, composer_1.5.1-1_all.deb from artful works fine.

[smira]

@timwsuqld I believe it's #635 or #655 (fixed in nightly builds)

[timwsuqld]

Thanks. That explains why I was confused as well, I looked at the source code and could see it trying different control.tar.* options, but that's because I was looking at the master branch.