Another good reason to exercise healthy paranoia

[GreyGeek]

I got curious to just how many dkpg tools there were on my Kubuntu Precise:

~$ locate bin/dpkg
/usr/bin/dpkg
/usr/bin/dpkg-architecture
/usr/bin/dpkg-buildflags
/usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage
/usr/bin/dpkg-checkbuilddeps
/usr/bin/dpkg-deb
/usr/bin/dpkg-distaddfile
/usr/bin/dpkg-divert
/usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges
/usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol
/usr/bin/dpkg-gensymbols
/usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper
/usr/bin/dpkg-mergechangelogs
/usr/bin/dpkg-name
/usr/bin/dpkg-parsechangelog
/usr/bin/dpkg-query
/usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages
/usr/bin/dpkg-scansources
/usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps
/usr/bin/dpkg-source
/usr/bin/dpkg-split
/usr/bin/dpkg-statoverride
/usr/bin/dpkg-trigger
/usr/bin/dpkg-vendor
/usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
/usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride

I checked about half of them for man pages and they had one. I don't have a clue as to what most of them do.