Re: signatures on release tarballs?

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Brian Gough <bjg gnu org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I have a question regarding the release tarballs on ftp.gnome.org.
> As far as I can tell, these are not gpg-signed.  Is that correct?
>
> Are signatures available anywhere else or is there any alternative way
> to check them?
>
> I'm working on a collected release of all GNU software packages and
> we'd like to verify everything that goes in it.  Thanks.

When we generate tarballs, we also generate their sha256sum.  Is that
sufficient?  For example:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/1.1/tomboy-1.1.4.sha256sum

Sandy