Florian Weimer:
> To some extent, it's a policy decision.  Is dpkg-deb supposed to
> process untrusted input?

Are you in the habit of installing third-party debs w/o using dpkg to
dump their control files for review? Lets fact it, there are a lot[1]
of third-party debs out there, this is something dpkg needs to safely
support if our users have even a hope of using them securely.

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see shy jo

[1] www.apt-get.org

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