Hi,

Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Laura and debian-www,
> 
> 
> recently you performed some changings regarding checksum files on several 
> releases pages like:
> 
> 
> --- index.wml 2017/05/13 08:33:34     1.6
> +++ index.wml 2017/09/19 13:35:57     1.7
> @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@
>       installation is similar to installing from a single architecture full
>       CD image; the DVD also includes the source for all included packages.
>      </li><li>
> -     For the netinst CD images, <tt>MD5SUMS</tt> and
> -     <tt>SHA1SUMS</tt> files are available from the same directory as the
> +     For the netinst CD images, verification files (<tt>SHA256SUMS</tt>,
> +     <tt>SHA512SUMS</tt> and other) are available from the same directory as 
> the
>       images.
>      </li>
>  </ul>
> 
> 
> The above is for english/releases/jessie/debian-installer/index.wml, but 
> it's the same for wheezy, stretch, squeeze, etch, lenny and buster.
> 
> It talks only about netinst CD images, but this not completely true:
> there are checksum files for CD or DVD images too.
> 
> And in times of iso hybrid images, CD images cannot be used for CDs only,
> but also for USB sticks, as an example.
> 
> Long story short:
> I would suggest to change this into
> 
> "For the installation images there are verification files 
> (<tt>SHA256SUMS</tt>,
> <tt>SHA512SUMS</tt> and other) available from the same directory as the
> images."
> 
> 
> The same also counts for devel/debian-installer/index.
> 
> What do you think? Do you want me to commit this?

Since noone objected on this, I will commit this shortly.

Holger


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