Hi. Excerpts from Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva's message of Sex Mar 05 18:41:58 -0300 2010: (...) > Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Seg Mar 01 07:08:30 -0300 2010: > (...) > > Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 15:28 +1100 schrieb Trent W. Buck: > > > This seems to be a systemic bug in haskell-devscripts: > > > > > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/file-missing-in-md5sums.html > > > > > > What should be done about it? > > > > I asked on d-devel if it’s a lintian bug if it expects md5sums for files > > in /var. Most responses indicated that a file should either not be > > modifiable (and thus be listed in the md5sums file), or be modifiable > > and be a conffile in /etc. > > > > Now I don’t think we want to handle conffiles just for the very odd use > > cases where someone would want to hide an installed package. > > It doesn't seem that this file is changed when the users hides the package: > > mar...@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ cp > /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/mtl-1.1.0.2.conf ~/.cabal/tmp > mar...@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ sudo ghc-pkg hide mtl > mar...@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ diff > /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/mtl-1.1.0.2.conf mtl-1.1.0.2.conf > mar...@zezinho:~/.cabal/tmp$ > > When did you notice a change in this file?
The file that changes in this case is /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/mtl-1.1.0.2-23ca4de7c573fd4df309067199a40634.conf . Notice this file is removed when the user removes the package. So maybe we can reintroduce the md5sum for this file in haskell-devscripts to avoid this warning? Greetings. (...) -- marcot http://wiki.debian.org/MarcoSilva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1267830984-sup-1...@zezinho
