Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums, clear-signed checksum

2010-03-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 00:37 +, The Fungi wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I made some tests, and it seems that we could allow,but not require, GPG signed checksum-file. sha256sum will ignore invalid lines by default (unless you specify --warn

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums, clear-signed checksum

2010-03-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:52 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org writes: [Wouter Verhelst] At any rate, a PGP signature takes a lot of data; much more so than a checksum. It's therefore more economical to produce a signed package.checksums file than it is to

Re: Bug#540215: Introduce dh_checksums, clear-signed checksum

2010-03-10 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I made some tests, and it seems that we could allow,but not require, GPG signed checksum-file. sha256sum will ignore invalid lines by default (unless you specify --warn option). Similarly, the policy could state that GPG