There is nothing wrong with making the request. But it seems the dpkg developers have not chosen to make it a priority; the most recent work was from six years ago. This is reasonable because the checksums are not intended as a security mechanism. So “Won’t Fix” is an accurate description of the state of this bug.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian Perl Group, which is subscribed to debsums in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100295 Title: MD5 is insecure, add modern hashing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1100295/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~pkg-perl-maintainers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~pkg-perl-maintainers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
