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Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:03:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> Even if it creates a checksum file, someone could always hand-edit the
> package to add files not listed in the checksum files and we need to
> decide whether that's something that needs to be catched and if yes by
> whom and at what point.

Do you mean a maintainer, who hand-edits a package after it was
built, or do you mean an adversery who has evil intentions? If the
former, then this should just be forbidden. If the latter, than this
can be solved by package signatures.

harry


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