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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Bug#223772: general: no md5sums for many packages (e.g. bc)
From:       matthias.hofer () arz ! co ! at
Date:       2003-12-18 8:43:50
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> > Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> schrieb am
> > 16.12.2003 19:15:43:
> > now it is getting clearer. we are talking about different things.
> > I'm talking about the md5sums files in the directory
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info. You talk about the md5 sum of the whole package
> > (MD5sum).  so what I like to say is, that for the debian package bc
> > (and many others) there is no file /var/lib/dpkg/info/bc.md5sums in
> > place. this file is checked and used by the tool debsums. that is
> > the thing I'm claiming about.
> 
> I know. I'm talking about both.

Do you want to tell us that the absence of the md5sums-files (those which 
contain md5sums for every file in the package, and they _are_ absent for a 
number of packages) should not be considered a bug, even if debsums 
complains about this?


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