Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:12:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> It strikes me that if we want to make it policy, having dpkg generate >>> the checksums upon creating the .deb would be the simplest and best way >>> to do it. This way we wouldn't have to change packages to do it, and if >>> we ever want to change the format (sha1 as well as md5?) there's only >>> one place to change it. >> Some packages (aspell and ispell packages in particular) ship files >> that they then modify in maintainer scripts and intentionally exclude >> them from the md5sums file for that reason. lintian has special code >> to deal with this case. A replacement in dpkg would either need to >> cope with this or decide that those packages can no longer take that >> approach and have to solve whatever problem they're solving in some >> other way. (I don't know what problem this is solving.) > As I understand it, it's so that debsums doesn't complain about that > files changes. Right... I meant more what problem they had that they were solving by installing a file in /var as part of the package and then modifying it later. (It always struck me as odd, but I presume they have good reasons for doing things that way.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
