does dpkg not support filenames with spaces in them?

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>]

I was trying to install a package that contains filenames with spaces in
them. In fact, this is a rpm converted with alien.

dpkg: error processing executor_2beta1-2_i386.deb (--install):
 corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 executor_2beta1-2_i386.deb

Partial file list:

-rw-r--r-- root/root       930 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/%Revision History
-rw-r--r-- root/root    139311 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/%Tex-Edit
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1104 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/%Tex-Edit Prefs
-rw-r--r-- root/root    107105 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/%Tex-Edit Reference
-rw-r--r-- root/root     76715 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/%Welcome to Tex-Edit!
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5518 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/Revision History
-rw-r--r-- root/root         0 Mar  8 13:32 1997
usr/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume/Shareware/Tex-Edit/Tex-Edit

Etc. Am I correct that dpkg is having trouble with the spaces? It this a
bug, or was dpkg designed this way?

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