Why no md5sums on download page

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 13 16:38:41 UTC 2011


On 13 October 2011 17:13, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2011, at 17:01, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I wonder why there are no md5sums on
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download, nor is there any
>> suggestion in the instructions that one should check the downloaded
>> file.
>> Is it safe to assume that if a download completes without errors that it is ok?
>>
>> I have eventually found the sums at
>> http://releases.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ but this does not seem to be
>> linked to from anywhere obvious.
>>
>
> File a bug?

Done
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/873462
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/873464

I put separate bugs in for the fact that they are not linked to and
for including instructions for how to check the file.

Colin




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