On Fri, 2016 May 6 08:40+0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > > The SHA files appears to be Ubuntu specific. For both distros, I am > struggling to find decent documentation about DEP-11. Can you point me > to where the Ubuntu SHA files are specified?
It appears the by-hash files are actually not a DEP-11/Appstream thing,
but a new feature of apt: Acquire-By-Hash.
See the section "indices acquisition via hashsums (by-hash)" at
https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat
for the spec.
