Hi, Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 15:28 +1100 schrieb Trent W. Buck: > This seems to be a systemic bug in haskell-devscripts: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/file-missing-in-md5sums.html > > What should be done about it? I asked on d-devel if it’s a lintian bug if it expects md5sums for files in /var. Most responses indicated that a file should either not be modifiable (and thus be listed in the md5sums file), or be modifiable and be a conffile in /etc. Now I don’t think we want to handle conffiles just for the very odd use cases where someone would want to hide an installed package. Our possibilities are: a) Ignore the issue (it’s just a warning). b) Add the file to the md5sums file again. This would mean that the admin gets md5sum errors when he hides a package. This would be ok IMHO. Are there other cases where the package file is modified? c) Add a lintian override. I personally don’t like lintian overrides. Lintian is a pure packaging helper tool and the shipped binaries should not contain files of no use for the user. But that’s just my opinion, and not a strong one either. Greetings, JOachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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