Re: wishlist for dpkg

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com>]

Previously Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> Admittedly, it may not be quite easily be reproducible. You could try to
> build a deb with a defective data.tar.gz, but it should not be necessary.
> I think, it is simple to include and check md5sums of both control.tar.gz
> and data.tar.gz, isn't it?

Simple maybe, but it's also working around the real problem, which is not
handling a corrupt package properly. I'ld much rather fix the real problem
then add a hack to circumvent that.

Wichert.

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