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Re: debsums for maintainer scripts (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)



Hi, Wouter Verhelst wrote:

>> If you have locally modified a file shipped with a package that isn't
>> a conffile (in which case it *has* an md5sum), then either you or the
>> package maintainer is doing something seriously wrong.
> 
> Not necessarily. Try "apt-cache show prelink". And yes, the difference
> is most certainly noticeable.

True, but the prelinked libraries don't need to get backed up even though
they've been modified, so there's no problem.

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