Neil Williams <[email protected]> writes: > Maybe the way to solve this properly is to remove compression from the > uniqueness check - compare the contents of the file in memory after > decompression. Yes, it will take longer but it is only needed when the > md5sum (which already exists) doesn't match.
Another possible solution is to just give any package an implicit Replaces (possibly constrained to /usr/share/doc) on any other package with the same name and version and a different architecture. This isn't as defensive, in that it doesn't catch legitimate bugs where someone has made a mistake and the packages contain different contents, but it also solves the binNMU issue (well, "solves"; the changelog will randomly swap back and forth between the packages, but I'm having a hard time being convinced this is a huge problem). -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

