Merged in DRTVWR-553-maint-mix-JK (pull request #856)

Fix template verifier erroneously failing checksum check

Approved-by: Nat Linden
Approved-by: Signal Linden
Approved-by: Andrey Lihatskiy

scripts/template_verifier.py

@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def run(sysargs):
     if not options.force_verification:
         # Early exist if the template hasn't changed.
         sha_url = "%s.sha1" % current_url
-        current_sha = fetch(sha_url)
+        current_sha = fetch(sha_url).decode("utf-8")
         if hexdigest == current_sha:
             print("Message template SHA_1 has not changed.")
             sys.exit(0)