On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:47:30AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> Package: aspell-it
> Version: 2.4-20070901-0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Install aspell-it and immediately run 'debsums -s aspell-it'. The output is:
> debsums: changed file /usr/lib/aspell/it.rws (from aspell-it package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/it.compat (from aspell-it package)
> 
> This means these files were changed by aspell-it itself, thus making it 
> impossible to check for tampering (or file corruption), and casting doubt on 
> the entire system for administrators who depend on the output of debsums.

Hi, Giuseppe,

Some recent work has been done in dictionaries-common to deal better with
this kind of things. In addition, a new aspell-simple feature has been added
to make easier maintenance of aspell dictionary packages built directly
after original aspell dictionary sources, like aspell-it. Please see cc'ed

https://bugs.debian.org/737515

When testing the system, aspell-it has been used a a reference example. For
that purpose, Tobias Frost has created an aspell-it example package to
demonstrate dh_aspell-simple.

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aspell-it/aspell-it_2.4-20070901-0-2.1.dsc

That reference package also includes a packaging overhaul (to really have a
state-of-the-art model package). A summary of changes follows:

 * d/control: update to SV 3.9.5, remove obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed,
   adding misc:Depends and aspell:Depends to the binary package
   dependencies
 * d/rules: update to debhelper short syntax (using dh_aspell-simple).
 * d/compat set to 9 and B/D on debhelper >9
 * d/source/format set to 3.0 (quilt)
 * d/copyright changed to dep5 style

and will also deal with this #638424 bug report.

We are very interested in having this reference package in the archive to
serve as an example for others. Please let us know what you think about
this. If you prefer to do things in person, please let us know as soon as
possible. Otherwise, if you do not object, Tobias package will follow the
usual NMU procedure.

Thanks for your feedback

Regards,

-- 
Agustin


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