Comment 15 for bug 1078697

If you wait a bit longer the fix for apt-ftparchive is 3 years old: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567343
That is rev 1875.1.95 in bzr and what pabs refers to as until recently (minus the time needed to get this onto ftp-master box of course) as far as I know.

And of course @mdeslaur, apt-get source does more than just checking MD5. It does what it does for all other downloads as well: Take the "best" checksum it knows and is available for checking if it isn't forced to use another (Acquire::ForceHash). What it does do with MD5 only is checking if the file on the disc matches the file we would download and if it does skipping the download as already done, which should be fixed (so that we can drop MD5 at some point) but has no real security implications as someone with write access to your local disk in that directory has better things to do …