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Re: qmail license

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:

> 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.
> 
I think we would be better served to add functionality to the packaging
system so that it can handle more than one format for upstream source. 
This needs to be thought out pretty carefully, but any additional format
would help tighten this link.
The .dsc file should probably contain the controling information for this.

Luck,

Dwarf

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