[Bug 454307] [NEW] indices/md5sums.gz doesn't match repository

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indices/md5sums.gz has many entries that don't exist in the repository.
In fact it has almost twice entries. Further, it doesn't list many files
that do exist in the repository. This poses two problems. The more
important one is that we cannot use it to verify the integrity of files
in our mirror. We normally verify the checksums twice a year; without
md5sums.gz we're forced to use rsync -c, which is very expensive for the
server as well.

The second problem is that it cannot be used as a reliable list of files
in the archive when updating, which forces us to use a normal rsync
recursive scan. If md5sums.gz was correct, as in Debian, we could avoid
the expensive disk scan at the server, reducing the load on it.

** Affects: ubuntu-archive-publishing
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: soyuz-publish
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indices/md5sums.gz doesn't match repository
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454307
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