Bug#732599: python-debian: SHA-512 hashes are not recognised as multi-valued fields in Release/Sources files

[Paul Wise]

Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.21+nmu2
Severity: normal

SHA-512 hashes are allowed in apt repository Release/Sources files but
python-debian returns them as unicode strings instead of the usual
multi-valued fields that other hash headers return. 

I am currently using this hack to work around this issue.

if 'sha512' not in debian.deb822.Release._multivalued_fields:
	debian.deb822.Release._multivalued_fields['sha512'] = ['sha512', 'size', 'name']
if 'checksums-sha512' not in debian.deb822.Sources._multivalued_fields:
	debian.deb822.Sources._multivalued_fields['checksums-sha512'] = ['sha512', 'size', 'name']

Here is an example of a Release file with SHA-512 hashes:

http://aptosid.com/debian/dists/sid/Release

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-debian depends on:
ii  python          2.7.5-5
ii  python-chardet  2.0.1-2
ii  python-six      1.4.1-1

Versions of packages python-debian recommends:
ii  python-apt  0.9.1

Versions of packages python-debian suggests:
ii  gpgv  1.4.15-1.1

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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