Bug#161484: dpkg's md5sum doesn't come with large-file support

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@mail.lkt.uni-erlangen.de>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.21
Severity: important

Tried to compute md5sum of 4GB file:

$ls -la debian*
-rw-r--r--    1 rabe     rabe     4342153216 Sep 19 14:10 debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso

$ md5sum -b debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso 
debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso: File too large

$ l /usr/bin/md5sum*      
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        17032 May 16 19:50 /usr/bin/md5sum
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        13764 Mar  7  2002 /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils

$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils 
textutils: /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum           
dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum

$ md5sum.textutils -b debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso 
58f2d526d1c1a8f0582f7f65e30cd2b9 *debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso

Shouldn't dpkg rename its "md5sum" so that the user doesn't inadvertantly
invoke it in favor of textutil's md5sum?

Thanks,

Ralf

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mysystem.domain.de 2.4.18-xfs #1 Fri Apr 12 23:07:56 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-11.1      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2   1:2.95.4-7      The GNU stdc++ library