On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 21:55 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
I vaguely remember some discussion about fixing the layout of the checksums so that it was clear one had to run sha256sum rather than sha1.
However, I see that it's still rather misleading in appearance--that is, the words SHA1 sum are written there along with what I assume are the sha256 sums. (I didn't actually download an ISO to check, but it seems to be a lot of numbers for an sha1.)
The nice people at distrowatch are apparently among the ones confused by this, as their links to downloads also include links clearly marked SHA1.
A minor issue to be sure, but those who frequent the forums know how Those Who Wish To Try The Latest will almost certainly be confused.
This is planned to be fixed in F13, it was too late to make this change for F12 when it really came to a head as we were past the feature freeze, and as the release engineer, I really should respect the feature freeze.