Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles

2008-05-28 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
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.) [...]

Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles

2008-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
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