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Add a FAQ for 'checksum mismatch' reports.
The aim is to try to reduce the incidence of the two least helpful
classes of those reports: the ones which have just got mismatched
checksum files, and the ones which don't tell us the information that
would help.
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you from free software developers who don't have any idea who you are.
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Then, only send out these mass mailings to the former.
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\S{faq-checksums}{Question} The \c{sha1sums} / \c{sha256sums} / etc
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files on your download page don't match the binaries.
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People report this every so often, and usually the reason turns out to
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be that they've matched up the wrong checksums file with the wrong
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binaries.
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The PuTTY download page contains more than one version of the
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software. There's a \e{latest release} version; there are the
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\e{development snapshots}; and when we're in the run-up to making a
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release, there are also \e{pre-release} builds of the upcoming new
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version. Each one has its own collection of binaries, and its own
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collection of checksums files to go with them.
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So if you've downloaded the release version of the actual program, you
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need the release version of the checksums too, otherwise you will see
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a mismatch. Similarly, the development snapshot binaries go with the
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development snapshot checksums, and so on. (We've colour-coded the
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download page in an effort to reduce this confusion a bit.)
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If you have double-checked that, and you still think there's a real
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mismatch, then please send us a report carefully quoting everything
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relevant:
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\b the exact URL you got your binary from
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\b the checksum of the binary after you downloaded
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\b the exact URL you got your checksums file from
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\b the checksum that file says the binary should have.
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\H{faq-misc} Miscellaneous questions
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\S{faq-openssh}{Question} Is PuTTY a port of \i{OpenSSH}, or based on
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