Comment 9 for bug 1430011

Colin Watson: Really great and super informative blog post, thank-you! Excellent to hear that this has been fixed in the latest release.

Is there any likelihood of the relevant changes being backported to older releases? In particular, the 14.04 LTS release? We see the "Hash Sum Mismatch" issue *very* frequently in AWS environments. I strongly suspect AWS EC2 mirrors aren't doing the extra work to ensure they're not distributing mismatched repository metadata when they themselves sync with upstream mirrors, and so are distributing mismatched data to clients potentially for extended periods of time. For those of us on LTS releases, it'd be fantastic to see this backported so we're not forced to upgrade to 16.04 to benefit from this fix. 12.04 LTS is probably not really worthwhile.