Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:30:46PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Bruno Rodrigues <bruno.rodrigues@litux.org> [031213 19:50]:
> > Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > > 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:
>
> I think Goswin knows what files are meant here. But I really do not
> understand, why he is trolling against them. (Espcially with such
> arguments, that I have an hard time to suppress my wish to use the
> same and requesting the removal of all .desktop files. ("I do not need
> them, they are a waste of space and bandwidth and anyone using them is
> stupid."))
Yeah, and I'll request removal of changelogs; there's always diff...
And documentation? Hell, use the source-code.
/David
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