Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages
Sven Mueller <sven@debian.org> writes:
> If it is created on install, why is it in the packages filelist in the
> first place? Other packages also generate (supposedly architecture
> dependend) files during postinst, without shipping a placeholder in the
> .deb - so what is the reason why [ia]spell does that?
>
> Uhm, also: I couldn't find any such example in the [ia]spell packages
> themselves nor in wamerican, myspell-de-de, ispell-de-de so perhaps
> (some of) those packages used to do that sort of stuff, but refrain from
> doing so now?
All I know about this topic is at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/10/msg00075.html
http://bugs.debian.org/324111
http://bugs.debian.org/346410
http://bugs.debian.org/374949
http://bugs.debian.org/401070
I'm happy to remove the exception again if this has changed.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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