On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:46:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Hmm, that might indeed be a good idea (the point to remove the Files > > field would be v3 then). > > Note it also affects *.changes files.
Yeah, but the decision for both when to break backwards compatibility is independent from each other. [...] > > If we want we could even declare size also to be a checksum and include > > only the filenames in the Contents field. > > This makes sense from the logical point of view as the size is certainly > not useful except to verify that the files are the same... on the other > hand it would need some special casing as it wouldn't be calculated by an > external program. So a slight preference to keep it in Contents for me but > I would'nt mind if you decided the other way. Note that in my patch the size is already handled inside Dpkg::Checksums. But I disagree that its only use is as a checksum. e.g. it is also useful for calculating download sizes for the whole source package. So it is slightly more versatile than other information. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
