On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Tonight I noticed the presence of sha1sums in a couple of PKGBUILDs I >>> adopted. Are we adopting a new policy toward sha1sums? Did I miss >>> the memo? >> >> Which packages? I think it's technically fine as long as the md5sums >> are still there. If it's just sha1sums then I think the previous >> maintainer may have been feeling frisky > > They did contain both types of hashes...I believe it was streamripper > and numlockx. So it was just a case of someone thinking of future > validation methods?
Well, I believe makepkg checks both if they both exist. It was someone being absolutely certain that the file is what we say it is 8)
