On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:58:14PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
Agreed. But needs someone willing to patch dpkg for that: volunteers?
> 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.
I don't see the point here.
dpkg-deb would probably be responsible of creating the md5sums and of
extracting them on demand. Hence, having them inside control.tar.gz or
outside it is just an implementation detail of dpkg-deb. The only thing
you gain having them outside control.tar.gz is that you can extract such
information via plain ar ... what's for?
Cheers.
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