Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> Note regarding the patch:
> I have tried to make the patch so it isn't too intrusive (for
> instance, dh_checksums is a symlink to dh_md5sums even though it
> should be the other way around).
Symlink direction seems irrelevant.
I'd probably just make dh_md5sums call dh_checksums, and later add
a deprecation warning message.
> Your comments on the patch are obviously welcome (feel free to hack
> it your self if you want)
>
> Any chance to merge it before squeeze Freeze?
Is debsums ready to handle other checksums types?
> +a DEBIAN/md5sums and DEBIAN/sha256sums files, which respectively lists the
So this doubles the amount of work that's done on build. Is there any
reason to generate md5sums files, aside from keeping old debsums
working?
> +my ($basename) = $0=~m:.*/(.+):;
Dh_Lib has a basename()
> + if (basename($0) == 'dh_md5sums') {
> + warning("This program should no longer be used. Please read the dh_checksums(1) man page.");
> + }
It's probably too early for this warning, I prefer to give people some
time before starting to nag.
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