Bug#279987: Checking checksums fails for symbolic links on Windows

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

Package: cdimage.debian.org
Version: N/A
Severity: minor

Hi,

I noticed that recent Sarge DVDs contain checksums for symlinks instead
of real files in md5sum.txt. Only a few files are affected, such as
files in doc/. This works perfect on Linux but fails in the cygwin
environment on Windows.

So I suggest to add the checksum of file2 instead of file1 if file1 is a
symbolic link to file1 to md5sum.txt:

file1 ==> file2

Jens