pe, 2007-08-17 kello 10:12 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > 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.)
dpkg could do its own checksum generation only if there isn't one in the package already, or something like that. These special cases can surely be worked around. -- The difference between appealing and appalling is very small. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
