Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's that way in sarge also. I'm frankly going to ignore this unless the > tech ctte revisits it.
Please read the committee decision on the matter at http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2004/06/msg00032.html In particular: 9. [...] Our conclusions apply to the utility md5sum no matter which version is chosen and no matter which package it is in. Is there a patch available for coreutils ? I was going to produce one but I got distracted. > AFAICT this was dealt with in the tech ctte because > it was a pet peeve of ian jackson. Firstly, there were two bug submitters involved; one from me and one from Eduard Bloch. Secondly, the TC dealt with it because I referred it there, yes; but the TC will deal (only) with any matter that someone brings to our attention. > I find it vaguely disturbing that there was an entire thread about > changing the behavior of a program in coreutils that *was never > mentioned to the coreutils maintainer*. Since nobody told me about > this discussion, I'll assume I was meant to ignore it. FWIW, both > md5sums in sarge shipped with the "forbidden" behavior and I see no > compelling reason whatsoever to deviate from either our own current > output or every other distribution's (which is based on coreutils' > upstream behavior). Please read the TC decision, and the preceding discussion on the TC list. Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
