Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes: > pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:07 +0200, Romain Francoise kirjoitti: >> It seems to me that the time spent to generate it on the buildds is >> probably insignificant compared to the total time needed to build >> the package... And since generating it can be done with a trivial >> shell command, it's not a complexity issue either. > It strikes me that if we want to make it policy, having dpkg generate > the checksums upon creating the .deb would be the simplest and best way > to do it. This way we wouldn't have to change packages to do it, and if > we ever want to change the format (sha1 as well as md5?) there's only > one place to change it. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. It might also be interesting to not put those into the control.tar.gz, but directly into the deb, so that it can easily be extracted. Marc -- BOFH #73: Daemons did it
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