Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Subject: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc) >> Package: general >> Version: N/A; reported 2003-12-12 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: security > > Every package has a md5sum in the Package file. > > Some packages have a useless and space wasting md5sums file inside the > package. Due to its uselessness the existance is rather a bug than its > omission. > > Please close this bug, read the threads on debian-devel about this and > if you still want md5sum files help making actually usefull ones.
I guess he means md5sum for files inside package, as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debsums bc debsums: no md5sums for bc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debsums debsums usr/bin/debsums OK usr/sbin/debsums_gen OK (...) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *.list | wc -l 1135 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls *.md5sums | wc -l 1042 Looking at the source: CHROOT/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/code/bc/bc-1.06$ grep md5sums debian/rules # dh_md5sums -pbc # dh_md5sums -pdc It would be nice to fix those packages to enable a simple system testing without requiring installing something like tripwire.
