Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: HEADS UP: checksums change is not backward compatible

[Tom Lord]

    > From: James Blackwell <address@hidden>

    > Now, the sha-1 checksum thing needs to be done. Tom knows it, Robert knows
    > it, Samuel knows it, you know it, and even I know it. And considering
    > the rapid growth we're going under right now, we need to do it much
    > sooner than later. But this is going to hurt 3 out of 4 of our public
    > users and we should be aware of it.

The point you were making is right in context but just to be clear:
there doesn't appear to me to be any serious obstacle to making it
upwards compatible and there's no time pressure to merge this
particular changes so ..... nobody has to get hurt, so to speak.

-t