Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> 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).
Oh, okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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