On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:15:16PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hi, > > I've just activated a few changes to the archive we talk(ed) about for a > long time. And while it is not exactly the start of this release cycle, > it should still work out nicely (so one hopes). > > As of now, InRelease/Release files, Packages and Sources no longer > provide MD5Sum and SHA1sums, only SHA256. > > Additionally I turned off generating gzip compressed versions of those > files, xz is there.
In addition to the security improvement, a quick analysis on binary-amd64 shows that this will reduce the size of Packages for binary-amd64 from 39MB to 35MB (uncompressed), and the size of the xz-compressed version from 7.9MB to 5.9MB. Very nice! That also helps reduce the impact and overhead of adding additional binary packages. Thanks for working on this. - Josh Triplett
