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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] cksum: use more exact selection of digest algorithms |
Date: | Tue, 1 Feb 2022 18:12:20 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/95.0 |
On 01/02/2022 05:08, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 1/30/22 21:36, Pádraig Brady wrote:Use more constrained argument matching to improve forward compatibility and robustness. For example it's better that `cksum -a sha3` is _not_ equivalent to `cksum -a sha386`, so that a user specifying `-a sha3` on an older cksum would not be surprised.Thanks, this is really useful. As this is a user-visible change, this seems to warrant a NEWS entry. Suggestion attached.
I pushed a slightly adjusted wording of that in your name. thanks, Pádraig
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