On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Andres Salomon wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.9.19 > Severity: wishlist > > The md5sum binary included in the textutils package is much more > featureful; for example, it supports reading in md5sums from stdin (echo > "foo <checksum>" | md5sum -c -). dpkg should either add support for > this feature to its md5sum binary, use textutil's md5sum, or use > dpkg-divert to allow textutils to overwrite /usr/bin/md5sum.
dpkg has to do nothing to 'allow' textutils to use dpkg-divert. File a wishlist bug there if you wish for that. As to the other features, they seem useful enough. Wichert, what do you think about having dpkg pre-depend on textutils, and having textutils replace dpkg, for woody+1?
