Mass-filling against packages without MD5-sums? (was: debsums for maintainer scripts)

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Michael Ablassmeier (abi@grinser.de) [031201 19:55]:
> I think, at least Packages like "dpkg" or "gnupg" should call
> "dh_md5sums". I was wondering, if it would be usefull to make
> a mass bug-filling against these Packages. Before, it would be
> nice to have a List of Packages (maybe sorted by Maintainer)
> which do not call "dh_md5sums".
> 
> IMHO Lintian should also check if "dh_md5sums" is called and
> print at least a warning if this is not the case.

I agree with you, and I would support mass-filling, if first such a
list has been published here on d-d, together with the warning of
mass-filling.


Cheers,
Andi
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