Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Maybe you can switch to sha256 and add the new functionality while at > it? Detect which mode (md5sum raw, sha256 uncompress) by the size of > the hash. Old debsums won't work with the new files, but is that really > a problem? That's what stable updates and backports are for... No, I do not believe random Debian-internal compatibility breaks are what stable updates are for.