The feature was removed because htdig cannot be used for Ubuntu (since
it cannot be supported at the same level khc is, i.e. latter residing in
the main part of the archives, whereas the former is in universe).
Without htdig installed khc will fail silently which really looks like
broken, and even
Ok, thanks for that answer. I can (have to) live with that.
At least now it's documented for reference. Not everyone is so desperate to
browse through KDE's full changelog ;-)
I hope i'm not stepping on any toes now, but maybe it would be a good idea to
include such vital changes in behaviour in