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Do not scan as bare files apt and dpkg data files

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Description

We scan status files and related data files from apt and dpkg and we should not:
```
Path Status
redis_buster.tar-extract/476baebdfbf7a68c50e979971fcd47d799d1b194bcf1f03c1c979e9262bcd364/var/lib/dpkg/available scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/476baebdfbf7a68c50e979971fcd47d799d1b194bcf1f03c1c979e9262bcd364/var/lib/dpkg/info/apt.postrm scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/476baebdfbf7a68c50e979971fcd47d799d1b194bcf1f03c1c979e9262bcd364/var/lib/dpkg/status scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/476baebdfbf7a68c50e979971fcd47d799d1b194bcf1f03c1c979e9262bcd364/var/lib/dpkg/status-old scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/659b6819cb268dbafdfe4e4619841909960f4704dc3fb5dd2fae5db4c18ef07f/var/lib/dpkg/status scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/659b6819cb268dbafdfe4e4619841909960f4704dc3fb5dd2fae5db4c18ef07f/var/lib/dpkg/status-old scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/ba43519ed653c0218d58f015140bd569ccb858a74d957662555aa59f148e4e9c/var/lib/dpkg/status scanned
redis_buster.tar-extract/ba43519ed653c0218d58f015140bd569ccb858a74d957662555aa59f148e4e9c/var/lib/dpkg/status-old scanned
```

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