[Debian-arabic-packages] Bug#638728: Bug#638728: debsums reports that some aspell-fa files have changed

[Lior Kaplan]

Hi,

Thanks for your reports.

The aspell dictionaries are designed to be built on the users's machine. So
all these bugs aren't going to be solved right now.

I agreed that having different MD5 sums is a problem, but I think we should
have a discussion before changing the method of building these packages.

Kaplan

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:

> Package: aspell-fa
> Version: 0.11-0-2
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Install aspell-fa and immediately run 'debsums -s aspell-fa'. The output
> is:
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa-common.rws (from aspell-fa
> package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa-generic.rws (from aspell-fa
> package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa-scientific.rws (from aspell-fa
> package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa.compat (from aspell-fa package)
>
> This means these files were changed by aspell-fa itself, thus making it
> impossible to check for tampering (or file corruption), and casting doubt on
> the entire system for administrators who depend on the output of debsums.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>  APT prefers testing
>  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages aspell-fa depends on:
> ii  aspell                 0.60.7~20110707-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker
> ii  dictionaries-common    1.11.5            Common utilities for spelling
> dict
>
> aspell-fa recommends no packages.
>
> aspell-fa suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> -- debsums errors found:
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa-common.rws (from aspell-fa
> package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa-generic.rws (from aspell-fa
> package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa-scientific.rws (from aspell-fa
> package)
> debsums: changed file /var/lib/aspell/fa.compat (from aspell-fa package)
>
>
>
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