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why does debian provide an md5sum? [was: Re: Bug#161097: textutils md5sum is happy with signed md5sum.txt files]



On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:33:21PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.

why does debian provide its own md5sum? why does it not just use the one
in textutils?

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