Simon Josefsson wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: >> I've been manually removing MD5 and SHA1 checksums from the template >> generated by coreutils' "make alpha/beta/major", so have added this >> so I can automate it: > > Btw, is there any point in publishing MD5 checksums?
IMHO, there is no point at all, in this context. Before I so much as decompress or untar a package, I want to have some confidence that the package was prepared by the owner of a trusted key.
