On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works
with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network
server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.)
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Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for dh_md5sums to generate an
empty md5sums file in this case to make it clear that it checked but
found no files that needed to be listed.
Otherwise every other program that tries to use the information later
Russ Allbery wrote:
We do already have code that's supposed to check whether an md5sums
control file is needed. It apparently isn't working right. (Naively, I
would have thought that files in /etc would still have md5sums in the
package? I'm probably just confused.)
dpkg already includes
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
We do already have code that's supposed to check whether an md5sums
control file is needed. It apparently isn't working right. (Naively,
I would have thought that files in /etc would still have md5sums in the
package? I'm probably
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.49
Severity: minor
I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works
with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network
server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.)
$ dpkg-deb --contents
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