Clearly we're not getting anywhere by filing bugs on each other's packages and trading well-judged insults ...
Something has to provide /usr/bin/md5sum, your package (coreutils) has the best implementation of that. If you also want to provide /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils, that's your call. Until your package is ready to provide md5sum itself, we need something to make sure it's there -- we can't have a system without it. The diversion has been working for the last six months, and seems to have not upset anybody. The easiest way to resolve this is: - you upload a coreutils which ships /usr/bin/md5sum and, if you like, the older filename - either the preinst of that package removes the diversion, or within the same dinstall run I'll upload a dpkg that removes it. That way everybody should be happy, and there should be only a short period during upgrade where there is no md5sum on the system. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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