Hi,
Oh no, not again.
>>"Piotr" == Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Piotr> I think DEBIAN/md5sums file should be required for all packages.
Piotr> md5sums is very useful for security reasons
Not really. Any security threat can modify your md5sum file,
which defeats the security purpose. (Please. look into the archives,
this has been brought up before).
Piotr> (trojans, fs crash, unexpected file modification) but a lot of
Piotr> important packages (sysvinit, dpkg, debianutils, bash,
Piotr> adduser, etc.) don't have this integrity verification.
Have you looked into tripwire?
Piotr> I propose any Debian package have to contains md5sums.
I propose we ask security experts before touting security as a
reason.
manoj
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