Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 01:08:07PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > >> Traditionally Debian security advisories have included MD5 check sums >> of the updated packages. > >> Since apt cryptographically enforces the integrity of the archive >> for quite some time now, we've decided to finally drop the hash >> values from our advisory mails. > > The side-effect of that is that you are now listing only the source > package name, and not anymore the binary package names. But to do the > upgrade, the administrator of the machine has to select the binary > packages for upgrade, or, to check if the testing/sid version the > machine has is new enough, check the installed version of all binary > packages built from that source package.
FTR, the template currently in use is not the final version. Changes are still under discussion. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
