On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:54:29PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > > I think its about time to require to generate checksums for packages and > > make > > all packages which do not do so RC buggy. > > If a checksum file becomes required then it really is not the job of the > package to build it. Instead dpkg should generate one and include it > automatically.
Following that logic, dpkg should do everything anyway (like rpm), no need for debhelper, dh, or anything. I don't think that just because something is required, it should be necessarily part of dpkg. So far, we are talking about a policy of including md5sum in our .debs, *not* about changing the .deb format to require md5sums (at least, as far as I can tell). Once the former works out fine for squeeze, we can still think about doing the latter by modifying dpkg-builddeb or something, but I think this is premature at this point (in the release cycle). Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100306114901.gb13...@nighthawk.chemicalconnection.dyndns.org
