Re: md5sums files (was Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!))

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

James Troup wrote:
> No it's not.  None of my packages have md5sums, and lintian didn't
> complain about it.  (Though it did rather amusingly complain about the
> fact that the ed package dared to include /bin/ed (``name-space
> pollution'')

Hhehe..

Oh, I see - it's only an error to be missing packages in your md5sums file
if you _have_ a md5sums file. Thus lintian neatly sidesteps the question of 
whether a md5sums file should be required or not. :-)
 
> > Also, lintian files it as a bug if a conffile is not listed in the
> > md5sums file.
> 
> IMO this is a bug in lintian, you don't want md5sums of conffiles in
> an md5sums file.

Agreed.

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