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

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Andres Salomon wrote:
> 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 -).

So does dpkg's md5sum, just don't supply a filename argument (ie drop
the -).

> For scripts that need to be run on several different distros, having a
> dpkg-specific md5sum binary that doesn't accept the same args as
> textutils is _really_ annoying.

Portable scripts shouldn't rely on GNU specifics anyway.

Wichert.

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