James Troup wrote: > No it's not. None of my packages have md5sums, and lintian didn't > complain about it. (Though it did rather amusingly complain about the > fact that the ed package dared to include /bin/ed (``name-space > pollution'')
Hhehe.. Oh, I see - it's only an error to be missing packages in your md5sums file if you _have_ a md5sums file. Thus lintian neatly sidesteps the question of whether a md5sums file should be required or not. :-) > > Also, lintian files it as a bug if a conffile is not listed in the > > md5sums file. > > IMO this is a bug in lintian, you don't want md5sums of conffiles in > an md5sums file. Agreed. -- see shy jo
