Bug#573088: Allow and recommend sha256sums control file

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: lintian Tags: patch Hello, As discussed on debian-devel[1], md5sum is not secure anymore and no one should rely on it for security purposes (which some people do). Please find a patch attached that allow (and recommends) to provide sha256sums. (During a "transition period", we encourage

Bug#573081: lintian: [testset/etcfiles] weird md5 checksum tests

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.3 Severity: normal Hello, The "etcfiles" test seems broken: 1. The file ./testset/etcfiles/debian/rules contains some test entries for md5which gets overritten immediately: >echo '68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 > ./etc/cron.daily/cronfile-normal' \ >