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Bug#366780: marked as done (ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums)

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and subject line Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>

* Package name    : summain
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
* URL             : http://liw.iki.fi/liw/summain/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : compute and verify file checksums

 A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the
 contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before
 you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily
 check the CD at any time: just compute the checksum again and see if
 they have changed.
 .
 summain computes and checks files against such checksums. It supports
 both MD5 and SHA-1 checksums, using formats compatible with the md5sum
 and sha1sum utilities, both for reading and writing. In addition, it
 can read and verify checksums from Debian .dsc, .changes, and Sources
 files.

(This ITP is for a program not quite released yet. I hope to get some
feedback on the description. The release and package upload to NEW will
happen once Debcamp6 Internet access gets more usable, or when I return
home.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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ti, 2006-05-16 kello 00:39 -0400, Theodore Tso kirjoitti:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> >  Apart from supporting more file formats, summain differs from the
> >  traditional md5sum and sha1sum utilities by providing progress
> >  reporting, and via convenience features such as automatic recursion
> >  into directories, and looking up files relative to the location of the
> >  checksum file, rather than the current working directory.
> 
> Have you looked at the "cfv" program, which is already packaged for
> Debian?  There are a huge number of checksum programs out there; it
> would be nice if there could be fewer with a greater concentration of
> features....

This is a good point. I'll close the ITP until I (as upstream) have had
time to add all the features in all most other checksum programs to
Summain (or to another of the programs).

-- 
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