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Re: md5sums files



On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:11:21AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> FWIW, about the people proposing to change from md5 to something else,
> it should be pretty easy to achieve too: if all of us is using
> dh_md5sums, 

Which is not the case. There are still people who like to package
without helpers.

> it would be enough to change its implementation to store a
> different kind of checksums (the name will become pretty bogus, though).

Maybe that would be a good starting point to give it a more
common name although this would require somewhat more work ;)

Regards,
Patrick


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