Bug#161097: textutils md5sum is happy with signed md5sum.txt files

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> dpkg replaces the textutils md5sum with its own, and since they are
> compatible, that's good.

Historically that is not correct: textutils provides an alternative
md5sum, dpkg was there first.

> It Would Be Nice If the dpkg md5sum would be compatible with the
> texutils one in this regard as well.

Probably true, but that is just a wishlist item.

Wichert.

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