More problems I'm seeing as a view the lintian output - The lack of an md5sums file is flagged as an error. However, I'm not aware of any policy that says we need one. I personally like the md5sums files, but I thought lintian was bound by policy, so why is it reporting this as a bug?
Also, lintian files it as a bug if a conffile is not listed in the md5sums file. Debhelper's dh_md5sums program, which makes md5sum files, excludes conffiles from md5sum files on purpose, becuase that info is duplicated elsewhere. So every debhelper package with a conffile gets a linitan error message. We need to get a consensus on whether 1. md5sum files should be required by policy. 2. conffiles should be included in them. (Moving this to debian-policy.) -- see shy jo
