Re: wishlist for dpkg

[Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> 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.

The point I was trying to make is that including the md5sums of control.tar.gz
and data.tar.gz INSIDE the deb (for instance in "debian-binary") and checking
that, would be a way to handle a corrupted package correctly by rejecting
its installation.

  Ulf