On Wed, Mar 03, 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > In this day and age of completely and utterly broken MD5[0], I think we > should stop providing these files, and maybe provide something else > instead. Like, I dunno, shasums? Or perhaps gpgsigs? But stop providing > md5sums. > > Or is it useful to be able to say "if it doesn't check out, it's > certainly corrupt, and if it does check out, it may be corrupt"? Didn't > think so.
I use them regularly after laptop crashes; I found some misinstalled packages a couple of times because a crash would happen just after an upgrade. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100303124010.gb7...@bee.dooz.org
