Re: wishlist for dpkg

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Subject: Re: wishlist for dpkg
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:02:48 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.A32.3.96.1010517124341.23286A-100000@pbtrs3.phy.tu-dresden.de>; from ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:46:47PM +0200
References: <[🔎] 20010517123743.F12639@cistron.nl> <[🔎] Pine.A32.3.96.1010517124341.23286A-100000@pbtrs3.phy.tu-dresden.de>

Previously Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> 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.

No, it would not be: we already have a checksuming in the gzip data,
adding a second checksum should not be needed.

Wichert.

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