> yes, you are right, there is only the sum currently, and the signature is not 
> checked.
> thanks for mentioning that is could be done in prepare().
> I could not find a way to do checks before extraction, since prepare() is 
> only after extraction (not required for checking the archives).
> 
> do you know a good package example which also verifies x.509 signatures in 
> prepare() (which does not require large/unusual dependencies)?
> I'm happy to copy it to these projects.
> 

Openssl would be your only dependency. Prepare extracts the tarball, but
it should still be available in the $srcdir, right?
And no, I've never seen such example.

Marcin Wieczorek

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