On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > What do people here think about changing policy to reccommend that packages > contain a md5sums file? The md5sums files have been around for over a year > now, there is a well defined file format, tools to use it and generate it. > The big reason to add it to policy is to make the tools that use it > (debsums, mainly) more useful, so they can begin to work on all packages.
I honestly never understood the point. dpkg should be able to generate such a file when it extracts the package, including it in the package is just a brutal hack. Jason
