[Distutils] Proposal: drop md5 for sha256

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

----- Original Message -----
> I would like to amend the spec. The hash column of RECORD should be
> 
> 'sha256:' + urlsafe_b64encode(hashlib.sha256(data))
> 
> instead of the hopelessly obsolete md5. With a secure hash function,
> you can digitally sign RECORD.
> 

Signing packages does sound interesting, but what authority would sign them? The authors of the packages themselves?

> It would also make sense to allow RECORD to be omitted from RECORD.
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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.