Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2013-05-05 Thread Charles Plessy
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and stored under /var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums. Several people find those checksums useful, mostly

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org (04/03/2010): Empirical tests show that the archive coverage is pretty good, most packages seem to ship those checksums. That can be seen this way: | $ wget -q http://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-md5sums-control-file.html -O -|grep -c 'h2 class=tag' | 249

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Version: 3.8.4.0 [ For the full context, see the -devel thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00038.html ] On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:12:26PM

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and stored under /var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums.

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Version: 3.8.4.0 [ For the full context, see the -devel thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00038.html ] On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:12:26PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Version: 3.8.4.0 [ For the full context, see the -devel thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00038.html ] On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:12:26PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Russ, while we are at it, would you mind a bug