Stop calculating Description-md5 if missing

This avoids the rabbit hole of md5 on FIPS systems, and repositories
have moved to including the value as well.

Also stop validating the field, this can be an arbitrary string
as far as we are concerned.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
index 6f47053a5..6b76c4d07 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc
@@ -282,25 +282,7 @@ std::vector<std::string> debListParser::AvailableDescriptionLanguages()
  */
 APT::StringView debListParser::Description_md5()
 {
-   StringView const value = Section.Find(pkgTagSection::Key::Description_md5);
-   if (unlikely(value.empty() == true))
-   {
-      StringView const desc = Section.Find(pkgTagSection::Key::Description);
-      if (desc == "\n")
-	 return StringView();
-
-      Hashes md5(Hashes::MD5SUM);
-      md5.Add(desc.data(), desc.size());
-      md5.Add("\n");
-      MD5Buffer = md5.GetHashString(Hashes::MD5SUM).HashValue();
-      return StringView(MD5Buffer);
-   }
-   else if (likely(value.size() == 32))
-   {
-      return value;
-   }
-   _error->Error("Malformed Description-md5 line; doesn't have the required length (32 != %d) '%.*s'", (int)value.size(), (int)value.length(), value.data());
-   return StringView();
+   return Section.Find(pkgTagSection::Key::Description_md5);
 }
                                                                         /*}}}*/
 // ListParser::UsePackage - Update a package structure			/*{{{*/