Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files
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- Cc: Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>, ftpmaster@debian.org, debian-l10n-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, apt@packages.debian.org, aptitude@packages.debian.org, synaptic@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files
- From: "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:59:41 +0200
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* Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net> [090813 10:14]:
> > Think like s/md5/sha256/ or so :)
>
> That should be doable;)
>
> Note that the probability of a collision (Description are controlled by
> trusted people), and the consequences of a collision (a wrong long
> description is displayed), do not make me too afraid of using MD5.
Actually I think that might even rather be a job for something like crc32,
md5 already looks like overhead, and sha256 feels like being longer than
the description itself.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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