Today I discovered the "debsums" package for #Debian#Linux. If you want to make sure a file hasn't been modified, you can do:
debsums packagename
It will compare the checksums of your local files against the checksums provided in the MD5SUMS file within the .deb file for that package.
It does just use MD5, which is known to be broken in terms of #security, but it should suffice for most folks who just want to make sure something hasn't become corrupt.
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