1 # dpkg manual page - deb-md5sums(5)
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22 deb-md5sums - package MD5 file digests
30 A package declares the MD5 digests for the package file contents by
31 including an I<md5sums> file in its control archive (i.e. I<DEBIAN/md5sums>
32 during package creation).
33 This file is used for integrity verification
34 and deduplication purposes, and not for any kind of security purpose.
36 This file contains a list of MD5 digests (as 32 case-insensitive hexadecimal
37 characters) followed by two spaces (U+0020 B<SPACE>) and the absolute
38 pathname of a plain file, one per line.
40 Trailing slashes (U+002F B</>) in the pathname will be trimmed.
41 Neither trailing whitespace nor empty or whitespace-only lines are accepted.
43 If the control file does not exist in the binary package, L<dpkg(1)> will
44 generate the matching information at unpack time (since B<dpkg> 1.16.3).
48 53c0d4afe4bc4eccb5cb234d2e06ef4d usr/bin/dpkg
49 f8da2bc74cdcad8b81c48a4f0d7bb0a8 usr/bin/dpkg-deb
50 70b913132de56e95e75de504979309b4 usr/bin/dpkg-divert