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. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
