Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for dh_md5sums to generate an
> empty md5sums file in this case to make it clear that it checked but
> found no files that needed to be listed.
>
> Otherwise every other program that tries to use the information later
> will need to check again. OTOH they probably need to check anyway since
> an empty md5sums file also could be an error.
We do already have code that's supposed to check whether an md5sums
control file is needed. It apparently isn't working right. (Naively, I
would have thought that files in /etc would still have md5sums in the
package? I'm probably just confused.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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