Re: debsums for maintainer scripts (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:35:28PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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.
Prelink links binaries, not just libraries.
That said, my mail was sent in reply to the above quote, a claim that
there's no real reason to modify non-conffiles. That's wrong, and I gave
one example of what that might not be true.
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Wouter Verhelst
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