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NAME

deb-md5sums - package MD5 file digests

SYNOPSIS

DEBIAN/md5sums

DESCRIPTION

A package declares the MD5 digests for the package file contents by including an md5sums file in its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/md5sums during package creation). This file is used for integrity verification and deduplication purposes, and not for any kind of security purpose.

This file contains a list of MD5 digests (as 32 case-insensitive hexadecimal characters) followed by two spaces (U+0020 SPACE ) and the absolute pathname of a plain file, one per line.

Trailing slashes (U+002F / ) in the pathname will be trimmed. Neither trailing whitespace nor empty or whitespace-only lines are accepted.

If the control file does not exist in the binary package, dpkg (1) will generate the matching information at unpack time (since dpkg 1.16.3).

EXAMPLE

53c0d4afe4bc4eccb5cb234d2e06ef4d usr/bin/dpkg
f8da2bc74cdcad8b81c48a4f0d7bb0a8 usr/bin/dpkg-deb
70b913132de56e95e75de504979309b4 usr/bin/dpkg-divert
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