Re: md5sum proposal

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 03:27:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  Peter> This reason alone is enough.  I second the motion.
> 
>         Why reinvent the wheel and further bloat the packjaging
>  system? Tripwire does this just fine.

I second your motion in general (this does not belong into dpkg directly,
but could be an add on). But just as I got curious about tripwire, I was
scared away:

Package: tripwire
Priority: extra
Section: non-free/admin
         ^^^^^^^^

So, it is worth to evaluate free methods to do this and work on their
integration into Debian.

Thanks,
Marcus

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