free PGP (Was: Re: are md5sums mandatory for all packages?)

1997-12-22 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Ellis) wrote on 19.12.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And the instant someone provides us with free software equivilant to ssh or pgp, we'll move to use it. We need the functionality, unfortunatly sometimes you have to use what you can get. You _do_ know that there's a

Re: MD5SUMs in debs / dpkg install hook (new thought)

1997-12-22 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) wrote on 20.12.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: of non-official sites. Does dpkg check the MD5sum with the one in the Packages file or in the archive itself? I think dpkg-mountable does. At least it always tells me which packages pass a MD5 check before even

Re: ldconfig warnings

1997-12-22 Thread Adam P. Harris
[CC'ing debian-policy] Jim == Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [I wrote] Yes, it is discussed in the Debian Packaging Manual, section 12. See: /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ch-sharedlibs.html You should just go ahead and file bugs against packages which don't include the .so link as part

Re: Rationale for /etc/init.d/* being conffiles?

1997-12-22 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Kai, the discussion already ended (I think), but now that you ask, I would like to answer: Policy says so because they are useful to modify. What is so hard to understand about this? I failed to see why some people can say they are *all* useful to modify

Re: free PGP (Was: Re: are md5sums mandatory for all packages?)

1997-12-22 Thread David Frey
On Sun, Dec 21 1997 13:33 +0200 Kai Henningsen writes: You _do_ know that there's a free PGP version, right? (The u[i[n]] series.) See the international PGP home page. It's derived from very early PGP versions that were still free. Incidentally, the guy who did the last hacks on it lives