Processed: Re: Bug#236688: apt: breaks on super-large (Binary:) fields

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> severity 174945 serious
Bug#174945: [tagfile] apt: installing package with lots of conffiles breaks apt (field larger than 32k)
Bug#205937: apt-get fails with "Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status" with huge number of conffiles
Severity set to `serious'.

> merge 236688 174945
Bug#174945: [tagfile] apt: installing package with lots of conffiles breaks apt (field larger than 32k)
Bug#236688: apt: breaks on super-large (Binary:) fields
Bug#205937: apt-get fails with "Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status" with huge number of conffiles
Merged 174945 205937 236688.

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