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Re: Bug#132767: debsum support should be mandatory



On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> All rpm-based systems support rpm --verify.  Having debsums support
> optional makes debian an inferior distribution in this aspect.  Making
> DEBIAN/md5sums required rather than optional would rectify this situation.

debsums is a poor and incomplete solution. The best thing is to have dpkg
compute+store the same data when the package is unpacked on the fly. Then
we don't bloat the archive, the feature can be turned on/off, etc.

However, nobody has ever made such a patch to dpkg and it has been many
years..

Jason



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