Package: wajig
Version: 2.0.37
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Debian policy recommends that all binary packages contain an 'md5sums'
control file. The following command shows that a package built from
this source package does not contain this file.
$ lintian --info --display-info --check-part md5sums ./wajig_2.0.37_all.deb
[...]
I: wajig: no-md5sums-control-file
N:
N: This package does not contain an md5sums control file. This control
N: file listing the MD5 checksums of the contents of the package is not
N: required, but if present debsums can use it to verify that no files
N: shipped with your package have been modified. Providing it is
N: recommended.
N:
N: If you are using debhelper to create your package, just add a call to
N: dh_md5sums at the end of your binary-indep or binary-arch target,
N: right before dh_builddeb.
N:
The attached patch changes the 'debian/rules' file to generate the
'md5sums' file for this package, and causes the above command to run
cleanly (with no output).
If there is a specific reason for avoiding the recommended 'md5sums'
file and not applying this patch or something similar, could you
please explain in this bug entry.
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`\ entitled to their own facts." -- US Senator Pat Moynihan |
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Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=== modified file 'debian/rules'
--- old/debian/rules 2007-07-01 08:22:07 +0000
+++ new/debian/rules 2007-08-25 02:36:44 +0000
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
# dh_perl
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
-# dh_md5sums
+ dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
# Build architecture-dependent files here.
