Hi Peter, For the Debian derivatives census I'd like to be able to check if a particular source package from a Debian derivatve is modified from Debian's version or not. I was thinking if I could check the hashes from the derivative source packages against the hashes of all source packages ever uploaded to Debian, I could easily find out which source packages are just old Debian source packages rather than modified Debian source packages or original derivative-specific source packages. IIRC snapshots.d.o is hash-based or something like that? For the purposes of the derivatives stuff just MD5 hashes would be enough. So I was wondering how big the list of hashes for Debian .dsc files is and or what would be the best way to query that list of hashes. PS: no hurry on this, just doing exploratory research. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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