Re: Bug#132767: debsum support should be mandatory
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> All rpm-based systems support rpm --verify. Having debsums support
> optional makes debian an inferior distribution in this aspect. Making
> DEBIAN/md5sums required rather than optional would rectify this situation.
debsums is a poor and incomplete solution. The best thing is to have dpkg
compute+store the same data when the package is unpacked on the fly. Then
we don't bloat the archive, the feature can be turned on/off, etc.
However, nobody has ever made such a patch to dpkg and it has been many
years..
Jason
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