Re: Archive changes - indices compression and checksums
On 14490 March 1977, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>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...
The SHA1 removal shouldn't break stuff. (We keep MD5 and SHA256, with
MD5 for Jigdo).
The .gz removal still breaks more than anticipated, so they will stay
and get turned off after stretch got stable. Removing them is simply for
space, bandwidth and amount of files reason.
--
bye, Joerg
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