Re: md5sums

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@wgolden-gryphon.com>]

Hi, 
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

 Joey> What do people here think about changing policy to reccommend
 Joey> that packages contain a md5sums file?  The big reason to add it
 Joey> to policy is to make the tools that use it (debsums, mainly)
 Joey> more useful, so they can begin to work on all packages.

	Could you refresh my memory about what exactly does debsums
 do? How is it different from tripwire? I know we are not doing this
 for install-security, since pgp-sgned md5sums provide security
 there. 

	manoj
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