@wpoely86: The thing is that we don't want to spend a lot of time on this in the light of easyconfig format 2.0.
I would also like the checksums to be closer to the actual files to avoid confusion etc., but it's too much of a hassle to get that supported now.
Since this will have to be revisited anyway for easyconfig format 2.0, we feel this is good enough to get in, since it allows us to use checksums where ever it's needed (e.g. for `WPS` v3.5.1 and `rgputools` (see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/282), which are known to have updated the upstream source tarballs without bumping the version >_<)...