Re: Bug#164889: md5sum <FILE produces spurious ` -' in output
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
Raul> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:49:29PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Raul> y=`md5sum < blah*.deb | awk '{print $1}'`
>>
>> Fails for md5sum /some/file >> hash-file-to-be-parsed-later
Raul> I'm not following you. If you're not using md5sum on stdin,
Sorry. This was a thinko. I had fallen into the mistaken
belief that the output of the md5sums were always different, not just
for the STDIN.
Raul> Initially. Priority should eventually be bumped up if the issue isn't
Raul> addressed and the new interface is still important.
I am unable to determine yet how important it is, especially
since I had thought the problem was worse than it is. (ucf is not
affected, BTW)
Raul> Until all those bugs have been closed -- and until every package with
Raul> a md5sum dependency has had a chance to be tested -- we should forbid
Raul> deployment of the gnu version.
>>
>> How do we keep track of these bugs?
Raul> Hmm... I guess we don't have a tool that says "given these bug
Raul> numbers, give me the status of each". If we had such a tool
Raul> (seems easy enough to write), package maintainer for the
Raul> package with changing interface could run [maybe it once a week]
Raul> to track progress.
The problem also exists of discovery -- how is that list
initially created? How are additions to the list tracked? Once the
list exists, I guess one may coble together scripts that handle
deletions from the list if the bugs are closed (and, with a little
care, track reopenings)
Assuming there is a real list of packages that actually shall
be affected by a change, the list we shall have may not actually
contain all dependent packages; and some may be added as the we
discover the dependency.
Since the changed interface is not permitted to be introduced
until all (most?) packages have transitioned, some of the undiscovered
bugs won't be known until they break on the day the interface
changed. (I am speaking to your general case here).
manoj
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