deb-md5sums - package MD5 file digests
DEBIAN/md5sums
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).
53c0d4afe4bc4eccb5cb234d2e06ef4d usr/bin/dpkg
f8da2bc74cdcad8b81c48a4f0d7bb0a8 usr/bin/dpkg-deb
70b913132de56e95e75de504979309b4 usr/bin/dpkg-divert
[…]
md5sum(1),
dpkg-deb(1),
dpkg(1).