Hashes wiki page

[Doug Smythies]

On 2104.09.12 08:31 Gunnar wrote:
> On 2014-09-11 15:00, David Symons wrote:

>>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashesProposed

> A few comments on that proposed page:

> * It refers to HowToMD5SUM [3] about checking the hashes. But should
>  we really recommend checking directly against hashes provided via
>  http://? Wouldn't it be better to refer to VerifyIsoHowto [4] and
>  remove (or redirect) HowToMD5SUM?

Good suggestion. It should refer to VerifyIsoHowto [4] as you suggest.

> * It also refers to BurningIsoHowto. However, there are official and
>  more updated guides on that topic; please see the links under "Easy
>  ways to switch to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS" at
>  http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

My input is to just delete the sentence and the reference entirely.
In terms of any hierarchy, the hashes page is typically referred to from higher
level pages, and we really start going around in circles, making 
more work for ourselves when changes occur.

>>     >>>> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
>>     >>>> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1349715
>>     >>>> [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
>>     >>>> [4] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VerifyIsoHowto

I have made the two changes to the proposed page (which, of course, can be
reverted if consensus goes another way)

... Doug