Bug#767253: Please provide hashes for uncompressed Translation-*

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:26:30AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 07:25:09PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> 
>> OK, cool. I'll admit to being curious - why does it want both
>> compressed and uncompressed? Is there a worry about corruption, maybe?
>[..]
>
>Its a bit of a idiosyncrasy of apt. It used to only check the hash
>after uncompression. Nowdays it checks it at all stages. But indeed, a
>nice benefit of this is that it also protects against corruption
>during the uncompression.

Cool, thanks for explaining. :-)

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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