This bug has been sitting on our todo list for some time, mainly
because I've been too slack. My apologies. As promised, I'm now
picking it up again.
I've gone and reread the bug reports #164591 and #164889, of which I'm
the submitter of the latter, and I've written a summary of my
position,
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:56:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
* I claim that the annotated behaviour is inferior, for two reasons:
Firstly, it is less convenient. When md5sum is used in scripts and
the like, it is significantly easier to use if a script can get it
not to annotate
Raul Miller writes (Re: md5sum FILE produces spurious ` -' in output):
It's probably not unreasonable, however, for programs designed to work
with specifically this md5sum interface to expect the interface to remain
the same.
When it has already changed more than once (Debian has changed from
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