Apparently noone objected to the wish itself.
The attached patch implements it. Could it be incorporated into the next dpkg?
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Index: dpkg-1.14.25/dpkg-deb/build.c
===================================================================
--- dpkg-1.14.25.orig/dpkg-deb/build.c 2009-03-24 11:45:24.000000000 +0000
+++ dpkg-1.14.25/dpkg-deb/build.c 2009-03-24 11:47:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@
static int known_arbitrary_field(const struct arbitraryfield *field) {
const char **known;
+ /* always accept fields starting with x- */
+ if (strncasecmp(field->name, "x-", 2) == 0)
+ return 1;
for (known= arbitrary_fields; *known; known++)
if (strcasecmp(field->name, *known) == 0)
return 1;
