Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > 
> > Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package
> > build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and stored under
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums.  Several people find those checksums
> > useful, mostly for file corruption detection a-la CRC.
> > 
> > Empirical tests show that the archive coverage is pretty good, most
> > packages seem to ship those checksums.
> > 
> > Hence, there is a desire to turn a similar feature into, for start, a
> > SHOULD requirement, meant to become a MUST later on.

Le Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:51:33PM +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> 
> If we are moving that way, maybe it would make sense for the checksums
> to be generated by dpkg-buildpackage.

Hello everybody,

while working on another package, I came to realise that the Policy does not
describe the md5sums file at all.  Would somebody be interested to submit a
patch ?

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan