Re: Proposed changing for releases pages
Hi,
Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> > Hi Laura and debian-www,
> >
> >
> > recently you performed some changings regarding checksum files on several
> > releases pages like:
> >
> >
> > --- index.wml 2017/05/13 08:33:34 1.6
> > +++ index.wml 2017/09/19 13:35:57 1.7
> > @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@
> > installation is similar to installing from a single architecture full
> > CD image; the DVD also includes the source for all included packages.
> > </li><li>
> > - For the netinst CD images, <tt>MD5SUMS</tt> and
> > - <tt>SHA1SUMS</tt> files are available from the same directory as the
> > + For the netinst CD images, verification files (<tt>SHA256SUMS</tt>,
> > + <tt>SHA512SUMS</tt> and other) are available from the same directory as the
> > images.
> > </li>
> > </ul>
> >
> >
> > The above is for english/releases/jessie/debian-installer/index.wml, but
> > it's the same for wheezy, stretch, squeeze, etch, lenny and buster.
> >
> > It talks only about netinst CD images, but this not completely true:
> > there are checksum files for CD or DVD images too.
> >
> > And in times of iso hybrid images, CD images cannot be used for CDs only,
> > but also for USB sticks, as an example.
> >
> > Long story short:
> > I would suggest to change this into
> >
> > "For the installation images there are verification files (<tt>SHA256SUMS</tt>,
> > <tt>SHA512SUMS</tt> and other) available from the same directory as the
> > images."
> >
> >
> > The same also counts for devel/debian-installer/index.
> >
> > What do you think? Do you want me to commit this?
>
> Since noone objected on this, I will commit this shortly.
Done.
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