First of all, your language, "...apt and apt-get no longer permits [sic]
weak-hash signatures" is incorrect. The weak signatures are still
_permitted_; they just generate a warning.

Second, this _is_ an apticron bug in the sense that warnings the user
can't do anything about that do not actually impact functionality should
be suppressed, or at the very least there should be a configurable
option to suppress them.

It is not a best practice for a program to generate warnings every
single day that have no functional impact and the user can't do anything
about. This wastes the user's time and tends to cause the user to ignore
_other_ warnings that user can and should so something about.

Adding a setting to apticron.conf to suppress these warnings, with the
setting disabled by default, would be sufficient to address this bug.

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  apticron won't stop complaining about weak digest algorithm

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