Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Some packages (aspell and ispell packages in particular) ship files that
> they then modify in maintainer scripts and intentionally exclude them from
> the md5sums file for that reason. lintian has special code to deal with
> this case. A replacement in dpkg would either need to cope with this or
> decide that those packages can no longer take that approach and have to
> solve whatever problem they're solving in some other way. (I don't know
> what problem this is solving.)
As I understand it, it's so that debsums doesn't complain about that
files changes.
Kurt
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