Re: dchanges change suggestions
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:13:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
How about changing it so it looks like:
Files:
c2680f4e26f2fe948ff8693613fd2a53 372254 e2-2.0.beta-2.deb
90f50714858ee192ca83ea3127072071 11297 e2-2.0.beta-2.diff.gz
fe1a89cb8f84671c098d21eaf410fee6 373090 e2-2.0.beta-2.tar.gz
This still doesn't allow for the checking of packages with `md5sum
-c'.
The md5sum output of each file should be included *verbatim*. This
is very important. For the above example, it should look like this:
c2680f4e26f2fe948ff8693613fd2a53 e2-2.0.beta-2.deb
90f50714858ee192ca83ea3127072071 e2-2.0.beta-2.diff.gz
fe1a89cb8f84671c098d21eaf410fee6 e2-2.0.beta-2.tar.gz
By including the md5sum output verbatim, the user can save the
announcement (in the file `e2-announce', perhaps) and check the
downloaded files by running `md5sum -c e2-announce', without requiring
any special processing. It is *very important* that we do not require
any unnecessary processing.
The output of `ls -l' should be included immediately before the md5sum
output. This allows users who don't have md5sum available to verify
that, at least, the file sizes are correct. As I said earlier, the `ls
-l' format is a good format to use, because people are familiar with it,
and familiarity makes for readability.
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