On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:48:45AM +0100, Warly wrote:
> Well, It may ease people that wanted to check their package is OK. 
> Most of the package does not need to have gz instead of bz2, but
> sensible one such as servers should keep the original source
> tarball and md5.

Yeah I guess.  The best solution would be if everyone would provide
md5sums/GPG sigs for just the tar.  Then if the compression method
changes it doesn't matter.

But alas most authors aren't doing that.
/me makes a note to start doing that myself.

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