On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:24:57 -0500 "Andres Salomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > There is also a c library providing md5, one from libwww0 (packaged) and another unpackaged libmd5 project (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/packages/md5.tar.gz). Ive been thinking for a while that md5 is generally usefull enough to be a seperate package, even though its small its still good to reuse code. If dpkg wanted to use the unpackaged libmd5 i would be prepared to package it. Glenn
