Comment 9 for bug 1078697

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Thomas Bushnell, BSG (tbushnell) wrote : Re: [Bug 1078697] Re: Ubuntu archive is missing SHA-1/SHA-256 hashes for some packages

Huhuh? That's sad.

But apt-get source isn't the only tool. ;)

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Marc Deslauriers <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Having the Sources file have better hashes than md5 doesn't improve
> things for now, as "apt-get source" only checks for md5.
>
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> Title:
> Ubuntu archive is missing SHA-1/SHA-256 hashes for some packages
>
> Status in Launchpad itself:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> As part of the Debian derivatives census, we are doing some checks on
> all derivatives. We noticed that a number of source packages are missing
> SHA-1/SHA-256 hashes. You may have inherited this issue from Debian, we
> had the same issue until recently. Here are some sample messages from
> the report below, which is generated daily.
>
> WARNING: source cvstrac 2.0.1-3: SHA-256 hashes but no hash for the dsc
> file
> WARNING: source cvstrac 2.0.1-3: SHA-1 hashes but no hash for the dsc
> file
> WARNING: source diveintopython 5.4-2ubuntu2: no SHA-256 hash
> WARNING: source diveintopython 5.4-2ubuntu2: no SHA-1 hash
>
> http://dex.alioth.debian.org/census/Ubuntu/check-package-list
>
> Please ignore the warnings about GPG and InRelease stuff, they are due
> to python-apt not supporting some things in Debian squeeze.
>
> affects launchpad
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> pabs
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