On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:58:14PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
Agreed. But needs someone willing to patch dpkg for that: volunteers? > It might also be interesting to not put those into the control.tar.gz, > but directly into the deb, so that it can easily be extracted. I don't see the point here. dpkg-deb would probably be responsible of creating the md5sums and of extracting them on demand. Hence, having them inside control.tar.gz or outside it is just an implementation detail of dpkg-deb. The only thing you gain having them outside control.tar.gz is that you can extract such information via plain ar ... what's for? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
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