* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-11 18:05]:
What's so hard about using apt to search for packages with the
dependency, emailing those package maintainers?
Both dpkg and textutils are essential, and there is no md5sum package.
Therefore, no package will explicitly declare a dependency on
* Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-11 18:05]:
What's so hard about using apt to search for packages with the
dependency, emailing those package maintainers?
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Both dpkg and textutils are essential, and there is no md5sum
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#164889: md5sum FILE produces spurious ` -' in
output):
I would like to refer bugs #164591 and #164889 (these are merged, and
I'm the submitter of the latter) to the committee. Below you'll find
my summary of the issue. (In the summary, `you' refers to the package
* Compatibility with the historical behaviour of md5sum is more
important than compatibility with the GNU textutils version.
Rather than Debian shipping its own md5sum, why not just rely on the GNU
textutils md5sum(1) in coreutils or one of the not-yet-packaged md5(1)
utilities from
Clint Adams writes (Re: Bug#164889: md5sum FILE produces spurious ` -' in
output):
Rather than Debian shipping its own md5sum, why not just rely on the GNU
textutils md5sum(1) in coreutils or one of the not-yet-packaged md5(1)
utilities from *BSD, depending on whether or not one wants
Please read my summary of the situation. Debian has been shipping its
own md5sum since at least in August 1994. It's the GNU people who've
made a change to the behaviour.
Yes, and I think that the time to lobby GNU to conform to the Debian
md5sum behavior was long before GNU's md5sum
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:52:08PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
2. We have concluded that
* md5sum is significantly more useful if there is a way to
produce the `bare' output format (ie, without trailing ` -').
Hmm.. sorry, I let this one slip by me.
What breaks? [An understanding
I would like to refer bugs #164591 and #164889 (these are merged, and
I'm the submitter of the latter) to the committee. Below you'll find
my summary of the issue. (In the summary, `you' refers to the package
maintainer.)
I sent Adam (via the BTS) this summary on the 25th of October, and
asked
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