Re: Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)
Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> writes:
>> 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.
> A lot more and larger things could be generated at install time.
>
Yeah, let's switch to a source-based distro!!!1
SCNR, Andy
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