On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > All rpm-based systems support rpm --verify. Having debsums support > optional makes debian an inferior distribution in this aspect. Making > DEBIAN/md5sums required rather than optional would rectify this situation.
debsums is a poor and incomplete solution. The best thing is to have dpkg compute+store the same data when the package is unpacked on the fly. Then we don't bloat the archive, the feature can be turned on/off, etc. However, nobody has ever made such a patch to dpkg and it has been many years.. Jason
