Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:27:45AM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx schrieb:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:25:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >>>> 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.
> >
> > 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?
It is modified on install, not created on install, although he final effect
is similar.
> Uhm, also: I couldn't find any such example in the [ia]spell packages
aspell does not provide any dict. ispell source package does not use
autobuildhash, so we have different iamerican and ibritish packages
for every arch.
> themselves nor in wamerican, myspell-de-de,
These do not create hashes of any kind.
> ispell-de-de so perhaps
ispell-de-de????
> (some of) those packages used to do that sort of stuff, but refrain from
> doing so now?
--
Agustin
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