On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:27:45AM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > Kurt Roeckx schrieb: > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:25:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>>> 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. > > > > The hash file, which is architecture dependend, is created on install. > > This is the only file in the package that is architecture dependend. > > If it is created on install, why is it in the packages filelist in the > first place? Other packages also generate (supposedly architecture > dependend) files during postinst, without shipping a placeholder in the > .deb - so what is the reason why [ia]spell does that?
It is modified on install, not created on install, although he final effect is similar. > Uhm, also: I couldn't find any such example in the [ia]spell packages aspell does not provide any dict. ispell source package does not use autobuildhash, so we have different iamerican and ibritish packages for every arch. > themselves nor in wamerican, myspell-de-de, These do not create hashes of any kind. > ispell-de-de so perhaps ispell-de-de???? > (some of) those packages used to do that sort of stuff, but refrain from > doing so now? -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]