On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:45:16AM -0400, Bdale Garbee wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > [ 2 ] Choice 1: the output of md5sum should be changed as per bug #341839 > [ 1 ] Choice 2: the output of md5sum should not change despite bug #341839 > [ 3 ] Choice 3: Further discussion > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- We have a de facto standard behavior today that is shared among coreutils upstream, coreutils in Debian, and other analogous tools such as sha1sum, sha256sum, and sha512sum. While the TC has the authority to change the behavior of these tools within Debian, we do not have the authority to get them changed upstream, and the coreutils maintainer does not agree that this is a correct technical solution; so at best, overriding the maintainer in this case would result in inconsistent behavior between Debian and upstream. The benefits of this change are not so great that divergence from upstream is warranted. However, I don't believe any further discussion is likely to be of benefit either, so I have ranked further discussion last. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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