Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2013-05-05 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package > > build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and stored under > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums. Several people find those checksums > > usefu

Bug#706778: debian-policy: Please explicitly forbid "-" at the start of Deb822 field names

2013-05-05 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: minor > Policy ยง5.1 states that: > > """ > [...] The field name is composed of US-ASCII characters excluding > control characters, space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges > 33-57 and 59-126, i

Bug#706778: debian-policy: Please explicitly forbid "-" at the start of Deb822 field names

2013-05-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I would like recommend that the Policy explicitly forbids the use of >> "-" at the start of a field name. > I concur completely, and I'm considering rejecting such fields from > dpkg 1.17.x, for the reason abov