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Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles



Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.)

dpkg already includes md5sums for conffiles, so it's redundant to put
those in the md5sums file (though dh_md5sums can do it if asked via -x).

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see shy jo

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