Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an > argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think they can use that > information for security. This argument is based on the incorrect assumption that everyon

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 oct 12, 18:22:50, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:59:35AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > Of course, being able to download stuff from two different servers at the > > same > > time had a better end result, and as long as is one download at a

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 13:40 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I wonder: did upstream developers start to worry when the number of bugs > > report they received *directly* started to decrease, due to Debian > > distributi

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 oct 12, 16:55:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > If you don't fall for such placebo effects you are unfortunately out of luck > as "host" is the default, but you can use a service like http.debian.net > (which only works so well because "host" is the default …) to get a > real benefit - a

Re

2012-10-13 Thread Gerard Sweeney
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