Bug#136110: md5sum binary should be from textutils, not dpkg

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:24:57 -0500
"Andres Salomon" <dilinger@voxel.net> wrote:

> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.9.19
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The md5sum binary included in the textutils package is much more
> featureful; for example, it supports reading in md5sums from stdin (echo
> "foo  <checksum>" | md5sum -c -).  dpkg should either add support for
> this feature to its md5sum binary, use textutil's md5sum, or use
> dpkg-divert to allow textutils to overwrite /usr/bin/md5sum.
> 

There is also a c library providing md5, one from libwww0 (packaged) and
another unpackaged libmd5 project
(ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/packages/md5.tar.gz).

Ive been thinking for a while that md5 is generally usefull enough to be a
seperate package, even though its small its still good to reuse code.

If dpkg wanted to use the unpackaged libmd5 i would be prepared to package
it.



Glenn