Bug#185054: dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum < whatever_file --> '[md5sum string] -'

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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: important



-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux svp 2.4.21-pre5 #1 Tue Mar 4 02:56:34 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                       1.10.9     a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

The md5sum utility outputs '  -' as msd5sum from textutils, whereas 
the same util from prev. dpkg (e.g. 1.9.21) outputs just the clean 
md5sum string; the result is that dpkg-scanpackages fails.

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Paolo