On Fri, 18 May 2001, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > Hmmm, my thought was, that data.tar.gz shouldn't be unpacked at all, if > the (additional) checksum does not match. But I don't know any internals > of dpkg, so this might quite well be wrong. This requires scanning the entire data.tar.gz, seeing that it is valid, then processing it all again, to extract it. It'd make dpkg half speed.