On 18-Dec-03, 02:43 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do you want to tell us that the absence of the md5sums-files (those which
> contain md5sums for every file in the package, and they _are_ absent for a
> number of packages) should not be considered a bug, even if debsums
> complains about this?
Amazingly enough, debsums is not policy. Lack of the md5sums file might
be a wishlist bug. If you file such a bug, and the maintainer closes it,
then the decision has been made for that particular package.
If you've been paying attention, many of us don't believe that including
per-file md5sums in packages provides any real value. Others disagree,
as sometimes happens. As the arguments have already been made in this
thread, over and over and over and over, I won't repeat them.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
