2013/1/15 Andreas Beckmann <deb...@abeckmann.de>: > On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: >> There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How >> are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff >> should be minor IMO. > > If a package is shipping no .md5sum at all, it will be created by dpkg > at installation time. > > A partial .md5sum however will not be "completed". This hides some > shipped files from debsums, defeating its purpose. > > I'm pretty sure modifying *any* shipped files in the maintainer scripts > should be forbidden, although I didn't find a policy reference for this > (this is made explicit for conffiles, what about "normal" files?). > Packages violating this and hiding the fact by excluding the modified > files from .md5sums ... should be fixed.
There are some cases where debsums should IMHO consider things differently. In particular I mean those corresponding to files shipped under "/var" with "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" md5sum (empty files created with touch). These are clearly placeholders, being dpkg used to remove/reset them instead of doing things from maintainer scripts. Whether that makes sense or not depends on the package. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cahmxk7jujr7qhuavqcqdylfsuyzext-vu6dtu1ndlzsq20y...@mail.gmail.com
