On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It strikes me that if we want to make it policy, having dpkg generate > > the checksums upon creating the .deb would be the simplest and best way > > to do it. This way we wouldn't have to change packages to do it, and if > > we ever want to change the format (sha1 as well as md5?) there's only > > one place to change it. > > Some packages (aspell and ispell packages in particular) ship files that > they then modify in maintainer scripts and intentionally exclude them from > the md5sums file for that reason. lintian has special code to deal with > this case. A replacement in dpkg would either need to cope with this or > decide that those packages can no longer take that approach and have to > solve whatever problem they're solving in some other way. (I don't know > what problem this is solving.)
As I understand it, it's so that debsums doesn't complain about that files changes. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
