Alexis Metaireau <ale...@notmyidea.org> added the comment:

If no MD5 checksum is present on the crawled simple index, then we don't have 
to check them. This means we introduce a potential security hole here (md5 
checksums were added for a reason).

What could be done is to explicitely don't check them if asked so. For instance 
using a --no-checksum flag when running pysetup, or passing a no_checksum 
argument when using the crawler.

Would that work for you?

Éric, this is a different issue than the one you pointed out in the sence that 
one is for local files and the other is for remote indexes. (Of course, local 
files, will not need checksums as well).

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