On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package
build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and stored under
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums. Several people find those checksums
useful, mostly
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
Policy ยง5.1 states that:
[...] The field name is composed of US-ASCII characters excluding
control characters, space, and colon (i.e., characters in the ranges
33-57 and 59-126, inclusive).
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes:
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 20:27:50 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
I would like recommend that the Policy explicitly forbids the use of
- at the start of a field name.
I concur completely, and I'm considering rejecting such fields from
dpkg 1.17.x, for the
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