Re: please, let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster (was Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF)

2017-01-23 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:34:11PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > afaik people are criticizing that there are still (only) md5sum files in > /var/lib/dpkg/info. As dpkg --verify uses them, it might indeed make > sense to replace them. > (yes, dpkg is not an IDS, but better than nothing...). I'm wo

Re: please, let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster (was Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF)

2017-01-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 13:54:26 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 22.01.2017 12:34, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > afaik people are criticizing that there are still (only) md5sum files in > > /var/lib/dpkg/info. As dpkg --verify uses them, it might indeed make > > sense to replace them. > > (yes, dpkg is no

Re: please, let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster (was Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF)

2017-01-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 22.01.2017 12:34, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > afaik people are criticizing that there are still (only) md5sum files in > /var/lib/dpkg/info. As dpkg --verify uses them, it might indeed make > sense to replace them. > (yes, dpkg is not an IDS, but better than nothing...). Originally the thread was ab

Re: please, let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster (was Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF)

2017-01-22 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 01/22/2017 10:49 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 22.01.2017 00:17, Holger Levsen wrote: >> We really ought to do the same. I'm all for keeping sha1+sha256, but >> please let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster. > > We already dropped SHA1, FWIW, so it's md5+sha256. And again, the Oracle > ann

Re: please, let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster (was Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF)

2017-01-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 22.01.2017 00:17, Holger Levsen wrote: > We really ought to do the same. I'm all for keeping sha1+sha256, but > please let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster. We already dropped SHA1, FWIW, so it's md5+sha256. And again, the Oracle announcement was about MD5-only, so isn't relevant to the d

please, let's *completely* drop md5sums for buster (was Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF)

2017-01-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm sorry but I want to amend myself… On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 05:34:41PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > (and btw, let's drop md5sums for buster, "maybe", _completly_, or how long > > > do we want to be joked about?) > > I'm not sure why you say this. More than one hash is strictly better >