Re: changes file format
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 14:05 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
> File permissions, link count, ownership an modification times on
> the maintainer's system are not of general interest, why include
> them in an announcement? The rest easily fits onto a single line
> and put the fixed length parts in front.
I agree that this is a kludge [...]
It may be a kludge, but familiarity makes for readability. I can look
at ls -l output and immediately obtain the information I need from it.
We need to be able to feed the announcement to `md5sum -c', which
expects <checksum> <space> <space> <filename>.
I agree completely. At the moment, I have to run a special script to
convert the dchanges md5sum format into a format that md5sum -c can
understand. This is a pain. If I didn't know how to write a shell
script to parse a string and rearrange it, I'd be out of luck.
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