Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

pe, 2007-08-17 kello 17:05 -0500, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti:
> I'd opt for dpkg generating the checksums upon _extracting_ the .deb
> file.  We already claim that the md5sums file isn't supposed to be any
> kind of security thing.  Why bother to ship it?  It is redundant
> information which can easily be regenerated on the user's system.

That would work too, I guess. It would give more flexibility in the
choice of checksum, too. Still, it'd be dpkg doing it, not each package
separately.

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