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Bug#629453: lintian: --checksums does not do anything



Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> ... and by the looks of it; it did not do anything in the 2.4.3
> release either.  I checked the $check_checksums variable in frontend/lintian
> in 2.4.3 and a modified local branch based on 2.5.0; none of them ever
> reads the variable (although they both pass it to GetOptions).

> Question is; should we re-instate it or deprecate it?  A little manual test
> suggests that currently is "on by default" making the option redundant.

I'd deprecate it.  I don't see any point in making this an option.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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