Previously Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Sure, but including a tiny md5sums file in with the package is pretty > simple and requires very little effort on everyone's part. Not everyone wants to use md5sums probably, since breaking them is becoming feasible at the moment. It might be better to let dpkg generate the checksum and let the user define what kind of checksum he wants (filesize,md5,crc32,etc.). > Personally, what I'm more interested in is having the debsums tools' > functionality built-in to dpkg. Indeed, this is one of the things which rpm does better then dpkg I think. I do think it should be a seperate tool: we should not fall into the trap of making dpkg do everything, like rpm does (rpm will be split in the very near future apparently). Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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