Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages
Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
> 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.
Right... I meant more what problem they had that they were solving by
installing a file in /var as part of the package and then modifying it
later. (It always struck me as odd, but I presume they have good reasons
for doing things that way.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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