On tiisdei 28 July 2009, Nico Golde wrote:
> > a solution
> > would be to require verification against signed known hashes of the
> > external files (the hashes could be part of the signed debian package).
> > i personally would like to go through and file RC bugs on all these
> > problematic packages, but there has yet to be any consensus on the
> > issue: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/02/msg00461.html
>
> To be honest I know of none package other than flash in
> non-free which isn't supported but also uses hashes to
> verify the files that uses that. There may be others but I
> am pretty sure they aren't very widely in use.

msttcorefonts downloads font .cabs but checks their hash before extracting 
them.


Thijs

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