From aef8fcfb75aedaedb0799c0c969cb68a10d92060 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@mister-muffin.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:48:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add comment explaining why dpkg-deb --extract still cannot be
 used

---
 mmdebstrap | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index 7cf7cb6..334d35d 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -2601,6 +2601,8 @@ sub run_extract() {
         }
         # not using dpkg-deb --extract as that would replace the
         # merged-usr symlinks with plain directories
+        # even after switching from pre-merging to post-merging, dpkg-deb
+        # will ignore filter rules from dpkg.cfg.d
         # https://bugs.debian.org/989602
         # not using dpkg --unpack because that would try running preinst
         # maintainer scripts