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

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:27:45AM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> > The hash file, which is architecture dependend, is created on install.
> > This is the only file in the package that is architecture dependend.
> 
> 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?

I wasn't at all involved with writing this policy.  So, I'll have to
guess.

> 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?

Policy doesn't say you have to do this.  It's just one of the options.

examples are things like:
aspell-en
ipolish
aspell-pl
idutch
apsell-nl


Kurt