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and subject line Re: Bug#635471: md5sum of modified files not updated
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regarding md5sum of modified files not updated
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Package: dpkg-repack
Version: 1.35
Severity: normal
The md5sum of modified files is not updated, result is that
the repackaged .deb has lintian errors.
With no files modified, the repacked deb is fine:
steve@riemann{tmp}fakeroot -u dpkg-repack dump
dpkg-deb: building package `dump' in `./dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb'.
steve@riemann{tmp}lintian dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb
N: 4 tags overridden (4 errors)
Modify a file, lintian error:
steve@riemann{tmp}sudo xemacs /usr/share/lintian/overrides/dump
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
steve@riemann{tmp}fakeroot -u dpkg-repack dump
dpkg-deb: building package `dump' in `./dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb'.
steve@riemann{tmp}lintian dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb
E: dump: md5sum-mismatch usr/share/lintian/overrides/dump
N: 4 tags overridden (4 errors)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg-repack depends on:
ii perl 5.12.4-1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
dpkg-repack recommends no packages.
dpkg-repack suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hi!
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:31:42 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > The md5sum of modified files is not updated, result is that
> > the repackaged .deb has lintian errors.
> >
> > With no files modified, the repacked deb is fine:
> >
> > steve@riemann{tmp}fakeroot -u dpkg-repack dump
> > dpkg-deb: building package `dump' in `./dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb'.
> > steve@riemann{tmp}lintian dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb
> > N: 4 tags overridden (4 errors)
> >
> >
> > Modify a file, lintian error:
> >
> > steve@riemann{tmp}sudo xemacs /usr/share/lintian/overrides/dump
> > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> > steve@riemann{tmp}fakeroot -u dpkg-repack dump
> > dpkg-deb: building package `dump' in `./dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb'.
> > steve@riemann{tmp}lintian dump_0.4b44-1_amd64.deb
> > E: dump: md5sum-mismatch usr/share/lintian/overrides/dump
> > N: 4 tags overridden (4 errors)
>
> It's not clear to me that dpkg-repack should hide modified files
> by regenerating md5sums. They could as easily be disk corruption
> as intentional; indeed it's very shady to be modifying files
> provided by a package; your modifications would be lost on upgrade,
> etc.
Yeah, I don't think this is a good idea either. If you want to mangle
the package you can always use the --generate option and fixup the
md5sums files, or remove the file completely as new dpkg versions will
generate it on the fly at unpack time. Closing the report now.
Thanks,
Guillem
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