Re: md5sums

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Joey Hess wrote:

> What do people here think about changing policy to reccommend that packages
> contain a md5sums file? The md5sums files have been around for over a year
> now, there is a well defined file format, tools to use it and generate it.
> The big reason to add it to policy is to make the tools that use it
> (debsums, mainly) more useful, so they can begin to work on all packages.

I honestly never understood the point. dpkg should be able to generate
such a file when it extracts the package, including it in the package is
just a brutal hack.

Jason