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Hello Eduard,

On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 11:02 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> I would really like if your documentation, including the package
> descriptions, would stop using the word "signature".
> 

I'm open to suggestions.

> In the real world, this word is used for some identity specific compact
> piece of information, it's basically static and is used "one way", i.e.
> does not serve further purposes except for verification of the identity.
> 
> Your "signature" is simply meaning "download list". Not sure why you
> picked exactly that word (maybe because it sounds more sophisticated
> than simple "download script/project/list/whatever/...") 

I don't recollect why. Maybe that was just the first one that came to mind.

> but it is
> obviously not there for identification verification purposes and it's
> not static (changes after every upgrade, right?).
> 
Yes. Agree.

> So it is WRONG and probably hurts the eyes of every techie person.
> 

Do you have a suggestion for a single word, to replace it ?

While we are changing, we need to ensure that it covers the following cases:

* The URLs.
* And now the details for Changelog.

Here's was it looks like now:

rrs@learner:/var/tmp$ cat changelog.urisĀ 
'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/thermald/thermald_1.5.3-2_amd64.
deb' thermald_1.5.3-2_amd64.deb 189228 MD5Sum:cafe662a54e1e85cf7be4e0ff78283e3
'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tmux/tmux_2.2-3_amd64.deb'
tmux_2.2-3_amd64.deb 259294 MD5Sum:99eea2ee7403169c46eb55a2c52d99c8
'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/transmission/transmission-common
_2.84-3.1_all.deb' transmission-common_2.84-3.1_all.deb 257272
MD5Sum:515fc1f64f9ddcfe05cb2d6a74a596fd
'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/transmission/transmission-gtk_2.
84-3.1_amd64.deb' transmission-gtk_2.84-3.1_amd64.deb 692576
MD5Sum:700d940c012c8b3584bc7dce7b7bb0c3
'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libav-tools_3.0.2-3_all.d
eb' libav-tools_7%3a3.0.2-3_all.deb 41100
MD5Sum:1a902a58f91efb7bcdba47869ab5bfbb
'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/publicsuffix/publicsuffix_201605
25-1_all.deb' publicsuffix_20160525-1_all.deb 64980
MD5Sum:42d7888691ef70d919a253c61ef2f29c
Changelog/libc6-x32/2.22-9
Changelog/libc6-i386/2.22-9
Changelog/libc-dev-bin/2.22-9
Changelog/libc6-dev/2.22-9
Changelog/libc-bin/2.22-9
Changelog/libc6/2.22-9
Changelog/libc6/2.22-9
Changelog/libpam0g/1.1.8-3.2


Thank you for the bug report.

- -- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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