Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 Severity: wishlist The md5sum binary included in the textutils package is much more featureful; for example, it supports reading in md5sums from stdin (echo "foo <checksum>" | md5sum -c -). dpkg should either add support for this feature to its md5sum binary, use textutil's md5sum, or use dpkg-divert to allow textutils to overwrite /usr/bin/md5sum.
For scripts that need to be run on several different distros, having a dpkg-specific md5sum binary that doesn't accept the same args as textutils is _really_ annoying. I'm submitting a similar bug against the textutils package, in hopes that you folks and Xu will agree on using diversions. -- Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Voxel Dot Net, Inc. 518.269.0569
