Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:48:06AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Perusuant to my message earlier, there are the first set of
> pending bug reports.
what message earlier?
> * #132767: debsum support should be mandatory
> Package: debian-policy; Reported by: Matthew Wilcox
> <willy@debian.org>; 212 days old.
>
> From the report itself:
>
> > 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.
>
> From the debsums man page:
> DPkg::Post=E2=80=90Invoke {
> "debsums =E2=80=90=E2=80=90generate=3Dnocheck =E2=80=90sp /var/c=
> ache/apt/archives";
> };
> /etc/apt/apt.conf fragment to generate missing checksums
> after upgrade/install.
>
>
> I am going to close this report.
can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read.
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