Sounds good to me. My primary concern was the mismatch. Being able to
easily find the correct .patch for a given .info (and handle multiple
concurrent versions) would be nice, but by the time I'm messing around
with multple versions I could just md5 until I find the right one at a
time.

dan

TheSin said:
: 
: this is much better idea.
: 
: for devel we don't add the md5sum till we are done like the source md5 
: and it solves mismatched info/patches
: 
: On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Kaben Nanlohy wrote:
: 
: > Add a new optional field "Patch-MD5".  If this field is present then
: > refuse to use the .patch unless its md5sum matches.  If the field isn't
: > present then always use the provided .patch.
: >
: > This wouldn't help you match the .patch file to the .info file, but it
: > would prevent problems like the one you encountered.

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