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

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 13:47 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Not that I particularly disagree, but fwiw it's currently _off_ by
default.  (See my earlier message to the bug log).

Regards,

Adam