On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:47:30AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > Package: aspell-it > Version: 2.4-20070901-0-2 > Severity: normal > > > Install aspell-it and immediately run 'debsums -s aspell-it'. The output is: > debsums: changed file /usr/lib/aspell/it.rws (from aspell-it package) > debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/it.compat (from aspell-it package) > > This means these files were changed by aspell-it itself, thus making it > impossible to check for tampering (or file corruption), and casting doubt on > the entire system for administrators who depend on the output of debsums.
Hi, Giuseppe, Some recent work has been done in dictionaries-common to deal better with this kind of things. In addition, a new aspell-simple feature has been added to make easier maintenance of aspell dictionary packages built directly after original aspell dictionary sources, like aspell-it. Please see cc'ed https://bugs.debian.org/737515 When testing the system, aspell-it has been used a a reference example. For that purpose, Tobias Frost has created an aspell-it example package to demonstrate dh_aspell-simple. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aspell-it/aspell-it_2.4-20070901-0-2.1.dsc That reference package also includes a packaging overhaul (to really have a state-of-the-art model package). A summary of changes follows: * d/control: update to SV 3.9.5, remove obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed, adding misc:Depends and aspell:Depends to the binary package dependencies * d/rules: update to debhelper short syntax (using dh_aspell-simple). * d/compat set to 9 and B/D on debhelper >9 * d/source/format set to 3.0 (quilt) * d/copyright changed to dep5 style and will also deal with this #638424 bug report. We are very interested in having this reference package in the archive to serve as an example for others. Please let us know what you think about this. If you prefer to do things in person, please let us know as soon as possible. Otherwise, if you do not object, Tobias package will follow the usual NMU procedure. Thanks for your feedback Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
