[Hackage] #635: Display checksum of tarball on Hackage

[Hackage]

#635: Display checksum of tarball on Hackage
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  Reporter:  dons               |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect             |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal             |    Milestone:         
 Component:  hackageDB website  |      Version:  1.6.0.1
  Severity:  normal             |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown            |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                     |  
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 Distro packaging tools have to, currently, download .tar.gz from Hackage
 in order to compute the md5 or sha has needed for many package systems.

 This wastes bandwidth.

 We could simply compute the hash on the server and store it somewhere.

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