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Re: W file-missing-in-md5sums (113 packages)



Hallo Joachim.

Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Seg Mar 01 07:08:30 -0300 2010:
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> 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.

I remember they pointed that, if the file is not modifiable, it should stay in
/usr.  I think it makes more sense, from the Debian FHS point of view, to put
it in /usr, but if upstream puts (?) it in /var, I don't know if it worths it
to change that.

Greetings.
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-- 
marcot
http://wiki.debian.org/MarcoSilva


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