Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It strikes me that if we want to make it policy, having dpkg generate > the checksums upon creating the .deb would be the simplest and best way > to do it. This way we wouldn't have to change packages to do it, and if > we ever want to change the format (sha1 as well as md5?) there's only > one place to change it.
Some packages (aspell and ispell packages in particular) ship files that they then modify in maintainer scripts and intentionally exclude them from the md5sums file for that reason. lintian has special code to deal with this case. A replacement in dpkg would either need to cope with this or decide that those packages can no longer take that approach and have to solve whatever problem they're solving in some other way. (I don't know what problem this is solving.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
