Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: summain Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://liw.iki.fi/liw/summain/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Lars, On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:35 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the > contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before > you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily > check the

Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: > It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does > that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. It handles .dsc, .changes, and Sources files. But I also forgot to mention the main reason I wrote it: it gives progress feedba

Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-15 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: > > It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does > > that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. How does it compare to md5deep (which also comes wit

Bug#366780: ITP: summain -- compute and verify file checksums

2006-05-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Apart from supporting more file formats, summain differs from the > traditional md5sum and sha1sum utilities by providing progress > reporting, and via convenience features such as automatic recursion > into directories, and look