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placement of sha256 checksums on releases page #10209

Description

sha256 checksums are not in a properly formatted files(or a file).
this makes it difficult to use them.


in case more information is required

example file( https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/SHA256SUMS ) with proper formatting.

58405101948aff46d5261e0a4d3e8f98ea3dc5366a9ada881ebe921eafd5f737  debian-edu-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
de14801ab29ea71e606ff516e87b1ca68499de21098f994778f77121ea41323d  debian-mac-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso

most recent affected releases:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/v7.0.0-preview.2
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v6.2.2
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v6.1.5


current workaround(incomplete, not preferred):

  1. Scroll up or down till you find it. Select the checksums on releases page and click Inspect Element and the copy the contents of
<ul>...</ul>
  1. Remove the useless text ...

note- its not preferred because most people don't expect this to be how a popular project to provide checksums.

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