On 2018-04-09 15:55:14 [-0500], Michael Shuler wrote: > It was purely a conservative duplication of existing symlinks. I can > drop the old md5 symlinks, if there's a consensus that they are no > longer needed in unstable.
Based on my research I think you can drop the old links since they were only required until everything was rebuilt and the symlinks were re-created during the 0.9.8 -> 1.0.0 transition. We are past that point now. > I could also include -compat for both > symlinks, if this needs to go in a stable update, just to be sure we're > not making a breaking change for users in Stretch. There is no need to push this stable. There is nothing wrong with it as far as I can tell. Upstream considers that script as legacy (and it not part of the testsuite) and I just wanted to make sure that we are ready to drop that script once upstream decides to remove it. Also not to be part of any further fallout. Sebastian