Re: Is md5sum compulsion in review instead sha1sum?

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On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:36 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I want to know that is there really any compulsion on posting
> md5sum instead sha1sum?  Review Guidelines said "Reviewers should use
> md5sum for this task." I have started posting sha1sum for source in
> package review.

That part of the review guidelines has always struck me as bizarre.
After all, wouldn't it seem even better to compare the actual tarballs
with each other, byte-by-byte, than relying on a checksum ?

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