Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)

[bruno.rodrigues@litux.org (Bruno Rodrigues)]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> werner.thoeni@arz.co.at writes:
> 
>> Subject: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)
>> Package: general
>> Version: N/A; reported 2003-12-12
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: security
> 
> Every package has a md5sum in the Package file.
> 
> Some packages have a useless and space wasting md5sums file inside the
> package. Due to its uselessness the existance is rather a bug than its
> omission.
> 
> Please close this bug, read the threads on debian-devel about this and
> if you still want md5sum files help making actually usefull ones.

I guess he means md5sum for files inside package, as in:

bruno@tuxiba:~$ debsums bc
debsums: no md5sums for bc

bruno@tuxiba:~$ debsums debsums
usr/bin/debsums OK
usr/sbin/debsums_gen OK
(...)


bruno@tuxiba:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *.list | wc -l
1135

bruno@tuxiba:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *.md5sums | wc -l
1042

Looking at the source:

CHROOT/bruno@tuxiba:~/code/bc/bc-1.06$ grep md5sums debian/rules
#       dh_md5sums -pbc
#       dh_md5sums -pdc


It would be nice to fix those packages to enable a simple system testing
without requiring installing something like tripwire.