Bug#718349: lintian: Emits malformed-deb-archive on valid deb packages

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.15
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

The malformed-deb-archive gets emitted on valid .deb archives as
specified in deb(5) and accepted by dpkg-deb, although those are not
accepted by the Debian archive. It would be nice to separate what's
a trully malformed .deb archive from what's not accepted by Debian,
probably through a profile?

For example the format explicitly supports extra members after the
known ones, and additional members inbetween the known ones as long
as they start with an underscore. Also uncompressed data.tar members
(as mentioned in another bug report).

Thanks,
Guillem