deb-md5sums(5)                    dpkg suite                    deb-md5sums(5)


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
        [<?>]

SEE ALSO
       md5sum(1), dpkg-deb(1), dpkg(1).

1.22.6                            2024-03-10                    deb-md5sums(5)