Re: Archive changes - indices compression and checksums

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 01:52:20PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>Hi
>
>as started in March[1] we have just adjusted unstable to no longer
>generate gzip compressed Packages/Sources files. We plan to wait about a
>week before adjusting testing too.
>
>Additionally we turned off SHA1 checksums for the (In)Release files for
>all testing suites.

I understand the desire to add functionality, but can you explain why
you're removing the older formats? It's breaking other tools, and I'm
not convinced there's much benefit...

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