Bug#614259: apt-utils: hash changes

[Michael Vogt]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 06:58:13PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Package: apt-utils
> Version: 0.8.10
> Severity: normal

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> currently apt-ftparchive (well, apt and whatever else, including the
> python lib of it) knows MD5, SHA1, SHA256.
> MD5 is not the most wanted hashing algorithmus anymore and so FTPMaster
> just dropped its usage. We also intend to drop SHA256.
> 
> We would like to add SHA512 to the Release files, so it would be nice if
> you can make that available (and allow its usage via the python api). We
> then will end up with SHA1 and SHA512 only in our usage. (The sooner,
> the better :) ).
[..]

I created a apt sha512 branch for this now, basic support is there,
but needs some cleanup. Hopefully finished in the next few days.
 
Cheers,
 Michael



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Bug#614259: apt-utils: hash changes

[Joerg Jaspert]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.8.10
Severity: normal

Hello,

currently apt-ftparchive (well, apt and whatever else, including the
python lib of it) knows MD5, SHA1, SHA256.
MD5 is not the most wanted hashing algorithmus anymore and so FTPMaster
just dropped its usage. We also intend to drop SHA256.

We would like to add SHA512 to the Release files, so it would be nice if
you can make that available (and allow its usage via the python api). We
then will end up with SHA1 and SHA512 only in our usage. (The sooner,
the better :) ).

(We should see if we can have it pass via the squeeze-updates suite,
that is, if you can have it patched into the squeeze code too)

Thanks.

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bye, Joerg
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