On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:53:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Michael" == Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org> writes: > > Michael> A process on the ftp-master patch the deb with the > Michael> translation, if the translation is not alread in the the > Michael> package. This process don't change the package or the > Michael> version number- It only add the translation parts in the ar > Michael> file. > > So the same file name, at dieerent times, shall have different > MD5Sums, and indeed, the same file on different debian archives shall > have different lengths and different checksums. (Did you know that an > X upload was rejected because it changed a file without changing > the version number?) > > I don't think that signing all parts of the ar separately > solves this issue at all. sorry, I don't make this proposal. This was only my understanding. If we can make this, if we have problem with the debian archives, if we can solved this problems, I don't know this all. I don't make comments on the points - 'put the translations in a extra ar element' and - make signatures on all ar elements I don't know the archives maintainment and the dpkg framework in this depth. I can't make real good comments on this. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --- Prof. Larry Wasserman
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