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Re: [PATCH] announce-gen: new option: --no-print-checksums
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [PATCH] announce-gen: new option: --no-print-checksums |
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Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:51:38 +0100 |
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> I've been manually removing MD5 and SHA1 checksums from the template
>> generated by coreutils' "make alpha/beta/major", so have added this
>> so I can automate it:
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> Btw, is there any point in publishing MD5 checksums?
IMHO, there is no point at all, in this context.
Before I so much as decompress or untar a package, I want to have some
confidence that the package was prepared by the owner of a trusted key.