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Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages



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Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto:
> So why waste all the mirror space and bandwith for something rather
> useless?

I did not do statistics; but, knowing how compression works, I would
estimate that the cost of shipping md5sums is ~ 20 bytes for each file
that is in data.tar.gz

IMHO this is not wasting a lot of bandwidth...

a.
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