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Re: md5sums in deb



Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Ivar Smolin wrote:
> > i can generate /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums, but why can't package
> > maintainers do it? how can i be sure, that md5sums, generated by myself,
> > are ok?
> 
> Because the maintainers of those packages know that adding those md5sums
> doesn't give you any extra security at all.

But they are useful after a system crash if you want to check
your files.



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