Re: Bug#164889: md5sum <FILE produces spurious ` -' in output
> * Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> [2002-11-11 13:54]:
> > Until all those bugs have been closed -- and until every package with
> > a md5sum dependency has had a chance to be tested -- we should forbid
> > deployment of the gnu version.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> No one will bother to check all these packages. Instead, allow the
> GNU behavior and have bugs filed on those packages that break (I guess
> most have been fixed already anyway). This is unstable after all.
Ick. That approach encourages breakage. [At the moment, I'm thinking
about an unrelated situation involving php4, but other situations are
possible.]
What's so hard about using apt to search for packages with the dependency,
emailing those package maintainers?
--
Raul
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