Dirk Eddelbuettel: > > On 29 April 2017 at 16:29, Niels Thykier wrote: > | Source: quantlib-swig > | Version: 1.9-1 > | Severity: important > | User: debhelper-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > | Usertags: dbgsyms-package-with-issues > | > | Hi, > | > | Due to dh_md5sums being commented out in d/rules, the generated dbgsym > | package for quantlib-python has no md5sums control file. > > Sorry about that, will fix. > > I may have more debian/rules files with commented-out dh_md5sums because at > one point way back when these were optional. Is this now mandatory?
They are "optional" in the sense that the package will still work. I don't remember if dpkg just computes it on the fly now or just creates an empty md5sums file. Anyway, they are useful for detecting corruption (e.g. via dpkg --verify or debsums) > Should lintian check? > > Dirk > There is a lintian check for it, but it is a "I:" tag, so you won't see it unless you run lintian with --display-info. Thanks, ~Niels
