Re: [Linux-ima-user] [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] Replace dh_md5sums debhelper with dh_checksums

[Mimi Z. <zo...@li...>]

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 22:57 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: 
> On October 21, 2014 5:51:23 PM EEST, Mimi Zohar <zo...@li...> wrote:
> >On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 12:00 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> It is actually very difficult to see the "diff", because patch
> >removes
> >> file and add new file..
> >> 
> >> You better do it in 2 steps...
> >> 
> >> 1) rename dh_md5sums to dh_checksums
> >> 2) do changes.
> >> 
> >> Then it will be very clear what are your changes..
> >
> >As the dh_md5sums is being called manually from numerous packages, the
> >next posting will define dh_checksums, but will not remove dh_md5sums.
> >
> >Mimi
> 
> May be for compatibility you still need to keep it and not rename at all.
> Otherwise it will break hundreds of packages.

Right, for now at least, we need to leave dh_md5sums alone.

As Joey requested, I've opened a bug report.  As seems to be the norm
for the debhelper mailing list, the patches are attached to the bug
report.

Bug#766267: debhelper: add file signature support in .deb packages, 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debhelper-devel/Week-of-Mon-20141020/000882.html

Mimi