On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:22:44 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003, christophe barbe wrote: >> > >> >>Before mass bug-filling, it would be necessary to make it >> >>mandatory which unfortunately is not the case right now afaik. >> > >> > >> > Deployment plan for md5sums everywhere: >> At ~600 affected source packages, this seems hardly feasible. > It is feasible. You just to care about it enough, and you certainly > don't have to do it alone, or in one go. > Otherwise, it simply won't happen, unless about 90% of the packages > or so aready use md5sums. At that figure, you have some changes of > passing a policy of 'must', and you are guaranteed to get a 'should' > to be approved IMHO. Before we make such a push, we should at least ensure that it is something we really want to do. I think locally generated checksums are a better solution. manoj -- There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C