It's strange indeed, but it's not the fault of dpkg. dpkg is not generating the md5sums files. I guess the problem is related to pkgbinarymangler. IIRC it shortens the changelog.Debian.gz files, and optimizes .png file, and other operations like this.
It's strange indeed, but it's not the fault of dpkg. dpkg is not generating the md5sums files. I guess the problem is related to pkgbinarymangler. IIRC it shortens the changelog.Debian.gz files, and optimizes .png file, and other operations like this.