Your message dated Wed, 6 Apr 2022 22:56:19 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#1009043: dpkg-fsys-usrunmess abuses "Protected: yes"
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regarding dpkg-fsys-usrunmess abuses "Protected: yes" status
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.21.0
Severity: serious
The dpkg-fsys-usrunmess program installs a dpkg-fsys-usrunmess package
which maliciously abuses the Protected and Conflicts/Replaces/Provides
fields to prevent installing again the usrmerge package:
https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit?id=abd3a064ef8a9004e7ff2c9e5841e507487130ac
This is dpkg's own changelog about the Protected field:
This field is intended to make it possible to move several of the
current packages marked as Essential, so that they can be removed on
installations where these do not make sense being installed.
Protected packages have some of the properties of Essential, but not
all. These are intended to be used mostly for packages that are involved
in booting the system.
Which is clearly not what is happening here.
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Marco
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Version: 1.21.0
On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 15:12:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.21.0
> Severity: serious
> The dpkg-fsys-usrunmess program installs a dpkg-fsys-usrunmess package
> which maliciously abuses the Protected and Conflicts/Replaces/Provides
> fields to prevent installing again the usrmerge package:
… No.
#1008780
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/ProtectedField
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