Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)
David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> writes:
> 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."))
The md5sum files inside the package as they are now can be generated
at install time by anyone who wishes to have them. Security wise they
are useless and for accidental corruption they are redundant (since
they can be generated at install time).
Thus they just waste space and bandwith.
MfG
Goswin
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