Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:09:40AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > the upstream tarball ? > > Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory > so that the latter comply with the Debian Policy. However,

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:09:40AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > the upstream tarball ? > > Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory > so that the latter comply with the Debian Policy. However,

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > > the upstream tarball ? > Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the > md5sum would almost always change, since most ups

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jérôme! You wrote: > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > the upstream tarball ? Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the md5sum would almost always change, since most upstream developers just use the default compression. --

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jérôme! You wrote: > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > the upstream tarball ? Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the md5sum would almost always change, since most upstream developers just use the default compression. --

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of > > the upstream tarball ? > Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the > md5sum would almost always change, since most up

MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I had many discussions with developers and I still cannot state about the following question: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory so that the latter comply with t

MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I had many discussions with developers and I still cannot state about the following question: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory so that the latter comply with