Bug#473259: python-debian: Please follow official release files for size in multivalued fields

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.9
Severity: low
Tags: patch

Currently, deb822 writes multivalued fields as 'checksum size filename', whereas
the official Release files use a specific width for the size:

The official release file:
 d8544bb5a8a8460c2f6c5576c073066a 22586597 main/binary-amd64/Packages
 ceda0c78baeec155fc6564737622d023       82 main/binary-amd64/Release

The same created by deb822:
 d8544bb5a8a8460c2f6c5576c073066a 22586597 main/binary-amd64/Packages
 ceda0c78baeec155fc6564737622d023 82 main/binary-amd64/Release

This makes the file a bit unreadable. To fix this, you just need to get the
len() of the str(size) of every file, take the longest one and write something
like "%8d" (if 8 is the longest size). This would produce more readable release
files.

One should also be able to specify int() values as size. Currently deb822 only
accepts strings, but a size is normally an integer value. The attached patch
also fixes that issue.

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