Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. for reference, this is #572571. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-16 Thread Agustin Martin
2013/1/15 Andreas Beckmann : > On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: >> There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How >> are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff >> should be minor IMO. > > If a package is shipping no .md5sum at all, it wi

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:46:46 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-01-15 10:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? > > If there is no md5sums file, dpkg (as of version 1.16

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Andreas Beckmann [130115 11:20]: > On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: > > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff > > should be minor IMO. > > If a package is shipping no .md5sum at

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:19:36 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > I'm pretty sure modifying *any* shipped files in the maintainer scripts > should be forbidden, although I didn't find a policy reference for this > (this is made explicit for conffiles, what about "normal" files?). > Packages violat

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff > should be minor IMO. If a package is shipping no .md5sum at all, it will be created by dpkg at installation

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-15 10:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How > are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If there is no md5sums file, dpkg (as of version 1.16.3) creates it at unpack time. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 13:10:24 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > this I'd probably file as serious, not having checksums for files in /usr > seems worse. But then, the same reasoning as for the above bugs applies, so > maybe important is better after all. > There's no requirement for md5sums file

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Holger Levsen] > Hi Andreas, > > On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from > > the .md5sums file: > > > > gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/.gacl > > gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5S

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-14 Thread darkestkhan
On Jan 14, 2013 12:10 PM, "Holger Levsen" wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from > > the .md5sums file: > > [snip] > > rkhunter: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/rkhunter/

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:13:46PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files > > in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. > What is so "serious" about that? Please no more

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from > the .md5sums file: > > gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/.gacl > gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/gridsitefoot.txt

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:13:46PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files > > in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. > > What is so "serious" about that? In itself i

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files > in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. What is so "serious" about that? Please no more rc mbf's. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req