[debhelper-devel] Bug#843163: Bug#847221: Processed: Re: Bug#847221: debsums: false positive missing file in open-vm-tools-desktop package - encoding issue?

[Bernd Zeimetz]

severity 843163 serious
thanks

@debhelper maintainers:
As people seem to think that the wrongly produced md5sum file is a
serious issue, I'm rising the severity of that bug, too.


On 12/06/2016 10:41 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2016-12-06 17:47, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> I see src:open-vm-tools fiddles with the entry in debian/rules,
>> removing the first backslash at the start of the line but not
>> touching the doubled one.  This seems to be wrong. While the result
>> does pass 'dpkg --verify', it only does so because the file name
>> doesn't match

So why does dpkg --verify not complain about missing files then?



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