Re: W file-missing-in-md5sums (113 packages)

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@debian.org>]

Hallo Joachim.

Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Seg Mar 01 07:08:30 -0300 2010:
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> Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 15:28 +1100 schrieb Trent W. Buck:
> > This seems to be a systemic bug in haskell-devscripts:
> > 
> >   http://lintian.debian.org/tags/file-missing-in-md5sums.html
> > 
> > What should be done about it?
> 
> I asked on d-devel if it’s a lintian bug if it expects md5sums for files
> in /var. Most responses indicated that a file should either not be
> modifiable (and thus be listed in the md5sums file), or be modifiable
> and be a conffile in /etc.
> 
> Now I don’t think we want to handle conffiles just for the very odd use
> cases where someone would want to hide an installed package.

It doesn't seem that this file is changed when the users hides the package:

marcot@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ cp /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/mtl-1.1.0.2.conf ~/.cabal/tmp
marcot@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ sudo ghc-pkg hide mtl
marcot@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ diff /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/mtl-1.1.0.2.conf mtl-1.1.0.2.conf 
marcot@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ 

When did you notice a change in this file?

Auf Wiedersehen.
(...)
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marcot
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