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Re: qmail license

On Feb 26, Michael Alan Dorman wrote
> bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> > He wants the MD5SUM of the .src.tar.gz to remain unchanged. We can do that
> > using dpkg-source without a problem. It's just strange.
[...]
> 
> My question is whether we can actually preserve the MD5SUM---if it's taken
> over the whole .tar file, and we change filenames within the tar file (to
> qmail-1.0.orig/*), then the sum for the whole file _will_ be different.
> 
> I'm not sure we can comply with this from a technical standpoint.

It might be possible to do it, through creative package building:
- provide the upstream qmail.src.tar.gz and
- have a 'qmail-installer' package in contrib that builds a qmail package,
  given the upstream source. This would be similar to the
  netscape-installer, kernel-package and pcmcia-source packages.

Ray
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