Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. for reference, this is #572571. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-16 Thread Agustin Martin
2013/1/15 Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de: On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff should be minor IMO. If a package is shipping no .md5sum at

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Holger Levsen] Hi Andreas, On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from the .md5sums file: gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/.gacl gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 13:10:24 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: this I'd probably file as serious, not having checksums for files in /usr seems worse. But then, the same reasoning as for the above bugs applies, so maybe important is better after all. There's no requirement for md5sums files

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-01-15 10:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If there is no md5sums file, dpkg (as of version 1.16.3) creates it at unpack time. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff should be minor IMO. If a package is shipping no .md5sum at all, it will be created by dpkg at installation

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:19:36 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: I'm pretty sure modifying *any* shipped files in the maintainer scripts should be forbidden, although I didn't find a policy reference for this (this is made explicit for conffiles, what about normal files?). Packages violating

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de [130115 11:20]: On 2013-01-15 10:29, Julien Cristau wrote: There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If anything this stuff should be minor IMO. If a package is shipping no

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:46:46 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-01-15 10:29 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: There's no requirement for md5sums files in the first place AFAIK. How are incomplete md5sums worse than no md5sums? If there is no md5sums file, dpkg (as of version 1.16.3)

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Andreas, On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from the .md5sums file: gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/.gacl gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/gridsitefoot.txt

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:13:46PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. What is so serious about that? Please no more rc

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-14 Thread darkestkhan
On Jan 14, 2013 12:10 PM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi Andreas, On Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from the .md5sums file: [snip] rkhunter: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:13:46PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. What is so serious about that? In itself it may

Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, the following packages from wheezy ship files that are excluded from the .md5sums file: gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/.gacl gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/gridsitefoot.txt gridsite: FILE WITHOUT MD5SUM /var/lib/gridsite/gridsitehead.txt

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. What is so serious about that? Please no more rc mbf's. Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to