[arch-dev-public] sha1sums in PKGBUILDs

[Thayer Williams]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Tonight I noticed the presence of sha1sums in a couple of PKGBUILDs I
>> adopted.  Are we adopting a new policy toward sha1sums?  Did I miss
>> the memo?
>
> Which packages? I think it's technically fine as long as the md5sums
> are still there. If it's just sha1sums then I think the previous
> maintainer may have been feeling frisky

They did contain both types of hashes...I believe it was streamripper
and numlockx. So it was just a case of someone thinking of future
validation methods?