I am no expert but on my opinion a temporary fix would be to bring back MD5 for
the time being and then fixing/extending python-apt functions to check for more
secure sums like SHA* first and then if not found fallback to MD5.
But just for the backwards-compatibility since MD5 are know to be
Cyril Brulebois (2019-11-14):
> Looking at the current (as of 2019-11-14 00:27:00 UTC) indices for
> buster/updates on security.debian.org, one can only see SHA256 entries
> in Release and Packages files, which is likely the reason for
> python-apt's explosion. I've asked #debian-ftp to add
Package: python-apt
Version: 1.8.4
Severity: serious
Justification: some people want to get rid of MD5Sum in indices
Hi,
While debugging a live-wrapper (lwr) failure that started occurring
(literally) overnight, I ended up discovering it was triggered by the
intel-microcode package's getting a
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