On Thu, 2019-11-14 at 01:47 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Assuming the FTP team is responsible for security's dak setup as well, > we'd like to get MD5Sum back in buster/updates. > > python-apt relies on md5 fields internally, as documented in #944696, > and a current symptom is live-wrapper's tracebacking accordingly when > packages are available in security; this has been the case for the > intel-microcode package, for a few hours.
Okay; I'll look at restoring it in the evening. > jessie/updates and stretch/updates seem fine (MD5Sum is present there). > I don't have an opinion regarding bulleyes/updates (MD5Sum is missing > there) at this point, but given at least some apt bindings don't support > missing MD5Sum, it would seem premature to remove it from there as well? I would like to keep MD5sum away for now from bullseye-security to see if we could keep it that way (I would like to get rid of MD5sum eventually). Practically it won't make a difference as the suite is empty anyway... Ansgar
