Signed checksums for source packets #5244

On https://bitcoin.org/en/download you provide checksums and download links for binary packets, but not for the linked source archives. It would be very good to be able to verify the source code archives hosted at github. Many packagers (for example at various linux distros) include them as source in their packages, and it is desireable for an end user to be able to verify that the source code used to build a package is unmodified. The only current way to achieve this includes cloning and verifying the git repo and diff it against the sources that the packager used, but it's alot of overhead imo.

Duplicate of #2476. Source tarballs will be part of the release downloads with 0.10 (as of #4727), and thus also parts of SHA256SUMS.asc, so you can consider this issue solved.