Please add sha256 checksums to the Release file

The archive publisher uses the hash utilities from the Python standard library.

Python 2.5 is the first release with an SHA256 implementation. Since we're still using 2.4, we'd need a 3rd party implementation. Do you know of such an implementation?

The python-crypto package has sha256 support in dapper.

It is used:

import Crypto.Hash.SHA256
sha256 = Crypto.Hash.SHA256.new()

then it follows PEP 247.

wip in my `archive-tools`

Right, the chunk below represents the shape of the Release file after adding SHA256:

{{{
...
MD5Sum:
 a5e5742a193740f17705c998206e18b6 114 main/source/Release
...
SHA1:
 6222b7e616bcc20a32ec227254ad9de8d4bd5557 114 main/source/Release
...
SHA256:
 297125e9b0f5da85552691597c9c4920aafd187e18a4e01d2ba70d8d106a6338 114 main/source/Release
...
}}}

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