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Re: multiarch status update



Scripsit "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
> On 5/16/06, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:

>> Here's an idea: store the configuration meta data in the file itself,
>> say, in the first line, following a comment starting with an exclamation
>> mark.

> This would kill MD5 checksums of changed files...

No it wouldn't. The metadata that says which version of Python the
program is written in is put there by the Debian maintainer and stays
content. The metadata the says which binary on the system implements
that version of Python is represented by links in the file system.

What do you think the problem is?

-- 
Henning Makholm          "Also, the letters are printed. That makes the task
                        of identifying the handwriting much more difficult."



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