Bug#420716: Please make exact iso sizes more visible

[Mark Weyer <weyer@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Package: cdimage.debian.org
Version: <does-not-seem-to-apply>
Severity: wishlist


Please publish the file sizes of isos somewhere clearly visible,
preferably (together with their checksums) on

  http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/


Use case: I bought Debian DVDs from a vendor.
Of course I wanted to test their integrity and ran

  md5sum /dev/cdrom

The reported checksum did not match the one listed on the subpages of

  http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/

The reason, of course, was, that the isos are padded when written to the
medium. So I had to truncate the content of /dev/cdrom first to the
correct size. But it was a real pain in the ankle to find out which that
was: Only the last browser available on my system (links) was able to
give me file sizes that were not rounded to the next KB or MB. And that
was only when pointing it to an FTP mirror.

I think this use case should be a standard one and 

  http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/

could have clear instructions, including file sizes, on how to check
purchased CDs/DVDs. (I know there is the checkiso script, but it is
outdated and it admits that it does not solve the padding problem.)

Best regards,

  Mark Weyer